Rayetta's Butterflies - Asterocampa celtis

Yep. A butterfly new to the CB documentation system has turned up at the CB in addition to all the unidentified skippers. I first espied it yesterday, late. Today I resolved to take its picture. When I, Rayetta Pistrum, PhD., resolve, there is a resolution. So in preparation for a resolution, I said to myself, Rayetta, what do hackberry emperors like to eat, for I suspected that the butterfly I espied yesterday late was a hackberry emperor. Then I said to myself, I bet hackberry emperors like bananas.

Crumby, take those bananas out to the butterfly feeder. And see if you can get all those fruit flies to follow you out.

Once Crumby had the bananas and most of the fruit flies outside at the designated location I set up next to the butterfly feeder and waited. Anon, a hackberry emperor alit on the banana peels and I took this picture. This butterfly is 1 - 1 on the Rayetta scales, large and tame when it is on a banana peel. When it is not on a banana peel or a banana, it is totally nervous, - 3- and won't come down out of the trees.

Variegated fritillaries also like bananas a lot.