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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsStrange looking Florida insect that might be a butterfly.
Description: Size in profile is about the size of a quarter. It has an orange body and wings are jet black, except for a white or pale yellow line along the bottom edge.
I have never seen one before yesterday. The side yard had about a dozen flying around. I will try to take a photo but they're skittish.
Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,758 posts)I have only seen them in flight, so I don't know if their wings lie flat on their back that way. When they fly, they flutter like butterflies.
Solly Mack
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mia
(8,362 posts)Black-winged Dahana
https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Dahana-atripennis
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LeftInTX
(25,558 posts)However, I don't know if they travel in groups......
Also seen on milkweed...(Maybe it's a pollinator of milkweed)
https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Melittia-cucurbitae