Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae) |
This butterfly has both a green and
yellow form of caterpillar. See below. It is called a cloudless sulphur
because it has no black border as seen from above as other sulphurs have. Cloudless
sulphurs like red flowers. |
![Cloudless Sulphur](IMG_2281_1.JPG) |
(Female) Broadmoor
Terrace, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, LA, October 11, 2012 It is called
a cloudless sulphur because it has no black border as seen from above as other sulphurs
have. Cloudless Sulphurs like red flowers. |
![Cloudless Sulphur](IMG_0214_1.JPG) |
(Male) Broadmoor Terrace, Shreveport, July 30, 2005 |
![Cloudless Sulphur Egg](IMG_5185_1.jpg) |
(Egg) Freshly laid egg on Cassia, Eddie Jones Park, Caddo Parish,
LA, July 22, 2009 |
![Cloudless Sulphur Caterpillar](IMG_2900_1.JPG) |
Keithville, LA, September 13, 2005 |
![Cloudless Sulphur Caterpillar](IMG_2895_1.JPG) |
(Catapillar Yellow Form) Keithville,
September 13, 2005. This caterpillar traveled 104 feet due east in
110 minutes from the host plant to this location where it formed its chrysalis.
This is almost a foot a minute. This is an average speed of about a
foot per minute. |
![Cloudless Sulphur Caterpillar](IMG_2830_1.JPG) |
(Catapillar green form) Keithville, September 13,
2005. |
![Cloudless Sulphur Chrysalis](IMG_2982_1.JPG) |
(Chrysalis) Keithville, LA, September 18, 2005
![Cloudless Sulphur Hostplant](IMG_2914_1.JPG) |
(Food Plant) Cassia corymbosa: Plants of the genus Cassia (also called Senna)
are one of the host plants for the Cloudless Sulphur butterfly. The pictures
of the yellow form of the Cloudless Sulphur were taken taken of
caterpillars on this bush. |