Harvester (Feniseca tarquinius)

Always a treat to find, Harvesters are uncommon in the NC mountains and fairly to very rare elsewhere in North Carolina. Harvesters have several broods and may be found on the wing from spring into fall. Harvesters are the only exclusively carnivorous North American butterflies; the larvae feed on wooly adelgids.

Harvester (Feniseca tarquinius)
Korstian Division, Duke Forest
Orange Co., NC
7 Apr 2013

Harvester (Feniseca tarquinius)
Buncombe Co., NC
26 June 2004


Harvester (Feniseca tarquinius) Duke Forest, Orange Co., NC 4 Apr 2023	Harvester (Feniseca tarquinius) Horton Grove, Durham Co., NC 24 Aug 2023

Harvester (Feniseca tarquinius)
Duke Forest
Orange Co., NC
4 Aug 2018

Left image with flash, right image without


Harvester (Feniseca tarquinius) Buncombe Co., NC 8 July 2006	Harvester (Feniseca tarquinius) Buncombe Co., NC 8 July 2006


Harvester (Feniseca tarquinius) Hill Forest, Durham, Co., NC 1 May 2005	Harvester (Feniseca tarquinius) Caswell Co., NC 17 June 2006

Harvester (Feniseca tarquinius)
Korstian Division, Duke Forest
Orange Co., NC
5 May 2004


Buncombe Co., NC 8 July 2006

	And here's a puddle party of Harvesters (2) with and dining on Pipevine Swallowtails. Buncombe Co., NC 26 June 2004

Harvester (Feniseca tarquinius)
Korstian Division, Duke Forest
Orange Co., NC
7 Apr 2013

Enjoying some fairly fresh horse dung.

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