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Viceroy Butterfly Limenitis archippus

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Title	Viceroy Butterfly Limenitis archippus
Subject	Plants and Animals Butterflies Viceroy butterfly Insects Nymphalidae
Place	Ohio
Description	The viceroy butterfly is commonly found in all of Ohio's eighty-eight counties. It lives in moist, open habitats, often near small willow trees. It is a member of the Nymphalidae (brushfooted) family, and can usually be seen between April and October, peaking between July and August. It is also an excellent example of a species that mimics another for defensive reasons. The viceroy butterfly looks very similar to the monarch butterfly, which eats plants that contain poisons known as cardiac glycosides and cause vomiting in birds. As a result, birds will not eat monarch butterflies. Though the viceroy does not eat the same plants, birds tend not to eat the viceroy because they mistake it for the monarch. This viceroy has a wingspan of 2.3 to 3.3 inches (5.9 to 8.4 cm). In Ohio there are more than 150 species of butterflies. Twenty-seven different species of butterflies representing five families can be found in the Ohio Memory Online Scrapbook, including all seven species of butterflies that are listed as endangered in Ohio. Butterflies are a part of the order Lepidoptera (from the Greek words lepis, which means scale and pteron, which means wing). There are nearly 17,500 species of butterflies world-wide. Approximately 750 of these can be found in North America.
Date of Original	1920 - 1950 circa
Collection	Ohio Butterfly Collection http://www.ohiohistory.org/ohiopix/
Source	Natural history specimen(s); N 15394; N 25567
Format	picture; specimens
Submitting Institution	Ohio Historical Society
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type	StillImage; 1920;1950
Date created	2011-08-10

Title	Om1360_1156938_019
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om1360_1156938_019.tif
Image Height	936
Image Width	1242
File Size	340.617 KB
Date created	2009-01-20

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