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Limenitis arthemis arthemis |
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| Order | Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths) |
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| Superfamily | Papilionoidea (Butterflies [excluding skippers]) |
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| Family | Nymphalidae (Brush-footed Butterflies) |
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| Subfamily | Nymphalinae (True Brushfoots) |
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| Flight | One brood in June, another in August. |
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| Habitat | Deciduous broad-leaf or mixed evergreen forests dominated by aspen or birch. |
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| Larval Hosts | Leaves of wild cherry, aspen, poplar, cottonwood, oaks, hawthorn, Deerberry, birch, willows, basswood, and shadbush, and other trees. |
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| Adult Food | Sap flows, rotting fruit, aphid honeydew, carrion, dung, and occasionally nectar from small white flowers including spiraea, privet, viburnum. |
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