Southern Dogface Butterfly

[c.j.]

CJ's Desert Dwellers: Southern Dogface Butterfly Colias [Zerene] cesonia


Family: Pieridae

Avg Size: 48-64mm

Both sexes are yellow above and below with forewing curved and pointed. Autumn-winter individuals MAY have black marking aboove and rosy scaling beneath. This is one of the magenta-flushed winter forms (also called rosa)

Flight is mid-to-late summer in the north and most of the year in the south. It is found from Southern California to Florida and irregularly into the Midwest/Canada/Northeast in summer.

This photo shows the Southern Dogface Butterfly Zerene cesonia sipping nectar from a Mealy Cup Sage Salvia farinacea

[paulnj]

Now this is a sweet looking butterfly! The colors remind me of sherbert

[Bevb]

What a good description Paulnj, i fancy some of that now!
another great picture cj.:thumbsup: