Arthropod: Mourning Cloak
BY: Savannah Eaves
Scientific Name: Nymphalis Antiopa
The Adult Mourning Cloak is brownish maroon with pale cream with bright blue spots along the edges the wings are usually ragged
Adult Mourning Cloak
Mourning Cloaks are one of the few butterfly's that overwinter, so instead of dying or flying south they stay year around Mourning Cloak do hibernate
Mourning Cloak Pupa
Like all butterfly's they enter the chrysalis stage were they cocoon themselves in a light durable wrapping mostly the color of there wings
Mounrning caterpiller
immature Mourning cloaks they are black with red spots down the back with black bristles their legs are dark red
Nymphalis Antiopa (Mourning Cloak)
- They are located in North America,U.K (Camberwell Beauty)
- The Normal Habitat is the woods, parks, gardens along lakes, streams, ponds
- They eat willow,American Elm, poplar, Hack berry, wild rose, and hawthrones
- Mourning Cloaks drink from nectar like Milkweed and Red Maple, Rotting, food tree sap, and mud puddles