4 thoughts on “Is this a Monarch butterfly?”

1. Nope. :) That actually looks more like a moth?

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   • It’s pretty.

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   • Actually, based on its antennae, I think it might at least be a butterfly.

     The most obvious difference is in the feelers, or antennae. Most butterflies have thin slender filamentous antennae which are club-shaped at the end. Moths, on the other hand, often have comb-like or feathery antennae, or filamentous and unclubbed.[2] This distinction is the basis for the earliest taxonomic divisions in the Lepidoptera: the Rhopalocera (“clubbed horn”, the butterflies) and the Heterocera (“varied horn”, the moths).

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     • Yup: a friend found it: Vanessa atalanta

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