Mourning cloak

Mourning Cloak (Nymphalis Antiopa)

• The host plants of the Mourning cloak are willows, elms, poplars, cottonwoods, roses, and birchs among others

• Mourning Cloak caterpillars are mostly bluish - grey with black spikes and a row of orange dots running down the middle

• The mourning cloaks chrysalis is light brown with spikes on the back half

• The mourning cloak butterfly is mostly marrone with a row of blue dots on the outskirts of the wings and then a thin rim of yellow on the very edge of the wings