Butterflies and Moths of North America

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  Sighting 1410065

Pearl Crescent
Phyciodes tharos

Observation date: August 01, 2025
Submitted by: Sometimes
Specimen type: Photograph
Observation notes: Crescents had a big summer population here this year. Now almost gone, for more than a month I saw several times more of them than of all other butterflies combined
Status: Resident
Verified by: jmgesell
Verified date: August 03, 2025
Coordinator notes: Impossible to tell with full certainty being a female, however the amount of wing reticulations and what appears to be darker antennal club nudums would favor tharos over cocyta. -Jeff Gesell
Checklist region(s): Canada, Ontario