Milbert's Tortoiseshell Butterfly Resin Earrings Ear Wires:Niobium Both forewing and hindwing sections

Both forewing and hindwing sections have that brilliant green coloration

with beautiful coloration and a lot more stunning than the comparatively drab (but still pretty) males

A milkweed feeding cousin of the Monarch Butterfly

Two gorgeous real African Queen Butterfly wing sections

Milbert's Tortoiseshell Butterfly Resin Earrings Ear Wires:Niobium Both forewing and hindwing sectionsMilbert's Tortoiseshell Resin Earrings Aglais milberti This wonderful butterfly overwinters as an adult, not a chrysalis. Multiple generations across the Pacific Northwest with adults staying in higher elevations during the heat of the summer, coming back to the valleys as temperatures drop below 75F or so during the day. Feeding solely on stinging nettle, larvae are gregarious in early stages and form nets around stinging nettle plants. Eggs are laid