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Hackberry Butterfly - Asterocampa celtis

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Size 1¾ - 2¼"
Egg Pale yellow
Caterpillar Grass green with yellow and greenish yellow stripes. Two branched horns on head and two tails on rear.
Host / Food Hackberry
Broods 2 broods northward,  3 broods South
Habitat Near Hackberry trees.
Range Southern New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Ontario, Illinois, Michigan, and Minnesota, and southward.
Notes

Hopefully this is a Hackberry butterfly. It's very hard to tell as the Empress Antonia and Alicia are similar in markings.

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