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Harvester Butterfly

Feniseca tarquinius

About

The only carnivorous butterfly in North America, whose caterpillar feeds on woolly aphids rather than plants. Adults are small and orange-brown with dark spotting.

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Did You Know?

The caterpillar camouflages itself with the waxy white filaments of its aphid prey while feeding.