According to Wikipedia, Grand Surprise and White Petticoat are older names for the adults, and the caterpillars are sometimes called Spiny Elm caterpillars. Mourning Cloaks ( Nymphalis antiopa), in the brush-footed butterfly family Nymphalidae, are large and strikingly-patterned butterflies whose name comes from the dark cloak worn by someone who is bereaved.
This is a rewrite of an episode from March of 2009-new words, new pictures. It’s so cool to look down on the trail and see the shadows of butterflies! No, they had not telescoped their caterpillar and chrysalis stages into the leafless period after the Equinox-these are species that overwinter as adults and are the first to fly into the spring sunlight. The BugLady walked in the woods, recently, on an unseasonably warm, spring day, accompanied by Mourning Cloak and Eastern Comma butterflies. (Note: All links below are to external websites and leave the UWM website.)
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