Common Buckeye

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The Common Buckeye (Junonia coenia) deserves its name. Except for areas of the extreme Pacific Northwest, it ranges across the United States.

Two other, less common Junonia species, the Mangrove Buckeye, Florida resident, and the Tropical Buckeye, a Southwest resident, round out the Junonia genus in the United States.

The brown wings with colorful eyespots make it a fairly easy butterfly to identify.

Caterpillars feed on a variety of snapdragons, plantains and wild petunias.

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