The Common Buckeye can
have up to 4 generations in a season. Junonia coenia is common
throughout the southern part of the United States and up the coasts to
Central California and North Carolina. The Common Buckeye eats
Plantain, Mimulus, Snapdragons and Linaria as a caterpillar and plants in the aster
family as adults. Most often I have found the buckeye in open mowed
fields or sunning on rocks or pathways.
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