. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 1262 Rtral vSchool Leaflet / two are Red-spotted purple THE SOVEREIGN BUTTERFLIES (For special study) Anna Botsford Comstock There are three sovereign butterflies found in New York State, but only They are large butterflies with rounded wings. The red-spotted purple.— The red-spotted purple has velvety black wings. The front wings are reddi
. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 1262 Rtral vSchool Leaflet / two are Red-spotted purple THE SOVEREIGN BUTTERFLIES (For special study) Anna Botsford Comstock There are three sovereign butterflies found in New York State, but only They are large butterflies with rounded wings. The red-spotted purple.— The red-spotted purple has velvety black wings. The front wings are reddish at the tips, and the hind ones show a dark metallic green luster, while the triple rows of spots near the edges may be green, blue, or purple. This species is found only in the southern part of the State and is not very com- mon. The banded purple.—The banded purple, or the white admiral as it is usually called, has choco- late-black velvety wings with a broad white band crossing both front and hind pairs. This is a common butterfly throughout New York State. The viceroy.—The viceroy has quite forsaken the general coloring of its family and appears in a uniform of brilliant orange-red with veins and borders black, in imitation of the monarch. Since the monarch is avoided by birds, it is much to the viceroy's advantage to resemble the monarch as closely as possible, and the imitation is very perfect, except that the viceroy has a narrow black band across the middle of the hind wings. The habits of the caterpillars of the sovereigns are very much alike and are ver}^ in- teresting. There are two broods each year. The egg of the first brood is laid by the adult female at the tip of the leaf of the food plant, w^hich in the case of the white admiral is black birch or poplar, in the case of the viceroy willow or ]Doplar. The newly hatched caterpillar feeds across the end of the leaf, leaving the midrib. It rests on the naked midrib during the day and feeds at night. Soon it
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