#3084 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Queen

Danaus gilippus

LCleast concern 🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Derrick L. Mims · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © TexasEagle · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Cindy Chrisler · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Philip Woods · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Joe MDO · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Kala Murphy King · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. Mission Garden, 946 W Mission Ln, Tucson, AZ 85745, USA:© spharvell · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Concord, CA (near Treat and Oak Grove) 94518:© Bob Hislop · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Crescent Bend Nature Park:© cindyvigil4 · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. North Lakes Park, Denton, Texas:© Roberto R. Calderón · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

5 in). It is orange or brown with black wing borders and small white forewing spots on its dorsal wing surface, and reddish ventral wing surface fairly similar to the dorsal surface. The ventral hindwings have black veins and small white spots in a black border. The male has a black androconial scent patch on its...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 73,537iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).