Peacock Butterfly (Vanessa Io)

Description

"The Peacock Butterfly is very easily recognized by the peacock's eyes - to the number of four, one on each wing - which have gained for it the name it bears."

Keywords

bugs life stages, butterflies moths lepidoptera, insects, kbutterflies

Galleries

Lepidoptera: Moths and Butterflies

Source:

Hazlitt Alva Cuppy PH.D., Editor Beauties and Wonders of Land and Sea (Springfield, OH: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1895)

Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman