Viceroy Behaviour
No observations regarding Viceroy behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Viceroys ...
The viceroy caterpillar eats the leaves of willow and poplar trees.
Life Cycle The viceroy mates in the afternoon. The female lays her eggs on the tips of the leaves of poplars and willows.
VICEROY BUTTERFLY
Limenitis archippus
True Brush-Footed Butterfly Family Nymphalidae
Order Lepidoptera - Butterflies and Moths
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VICEROY
The Viceroy butterfly (Limenitis archippus) is a brown and orange non-poisonous butterfly that is very similar to the Monarch; it is a Batesian mimic of the poisonous Monarch.
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Certain species of butterfly are particularly adept at mimicking one another.
Viceroy Butterfly
The Viceroy Butterfly (Limenitis archippus) is a North American butterfly with a range from the Northwest Territories along the eastern edges of the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada mountains, southwards into central Mexico.
Queen, Western Viceroy, Painted Lady
Text by Margi Dykens and Christian Manion.
Photo by Bob Parks.
Perhaps one of the most well-known examples of mimicry, the viceroy butterfly (top) appears very similar to the noxious tasting monarch butterfly (bottom).
Red-spotted Purple (Limenitis arthemis astyanax)
Viceroy (Limenitis archippus)
Mexican Bluewing (Myscelia ethusa)
Blue-eyed Sailor (Dynamine dyonis)
Common Mestra (Mestra amymone)
Red Rim (Biblis hyperia)
Orange Banner (Anaea eurypyle) ...
These compounds, called glycosides, are poisonous helping monarchs avoid predation from birds and other vertebrate predators. The Viceroy is an edible species that mimics the Monarch in the western states.
(The Viceroy butterfly has a similar size, color, and pattern, but can be distinguished by an extra black stripe across the hind wing.) Female Monarchs have darker veins on their wings, ...
Birds that try to eat monarchs or their caterpillars become ill. They quickly learn that monarchs are not good to eat. Other butterflies, such as Queens and Viceroys, copy the colors of monarchs so that birds won't eat them either.
 See also: Monarch, Caterpillar, Nymph, Tiger, Tiger Swallowtail
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