Milbert's Tortoiseshell Butterfly Resin Earrings Ear Wires:Niobium If the pure green side

If the pure green side of the hindwing is preferred

and feeds as a larvae on a wide variety of trees

under rocks and logs to emerge when the first warm weather brings out flowers and tree sap to nectar on

Persea borbonia

Milbert's Tortoiseshell Butterfly Resin Earrings Ear Wires:Niobium If the pure green sideMilbert's Tortoiseshell Resin Earrings Aglais milberti This wonderful butterfly overwinters as an adult, not a chrysalis. Multiple generations across the Pacific Northwest with adults staying in higher elevations during the heat of the summer, coming back to the valleys as temperatures drop below 75F or so during the day. Feeding solely on stinging nettle, larvae are gregarious in early stages and form nets around stinging nettle plants. Eggs are laid