# 10207

Sleepy Orange (Fall Form)
(Eurema nicippe)

Family: Pieridae
Sub Family: Coliadinae

This butterfly was resting on a wall in late day sunlight. A very common sulphur in late summer and fall. Fields and meadows are where it`s seen by the hundreds sometimes.

Hosts: Cassia family

Photo taken on 10/15/99 at the Carolina Pavillion Butterfly House in Durham County, NC.

Cloudless Sulphur 05 | Sleepy Orange 02

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