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Red Admiral

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This bug has been reportedly found in the following regions:

Barling, Arkansas

Canoga Park, California

San Francisco, California

Bear, Delaware

Lutz, Florida

Tampa, Florida

Algonquin, Illinois

Divernon, Illinois

La Grange Park, Illinois

Princeton, Illinois

Westchester, Illinois

Coatesville, Indiana

Greenwood, Indiana

Atalissa, Iowa

Yale, Iowa

Irvine, Kentucky

La Place, Louisiana

Brockton, Massachusetts

Dearborn Heights, Michigan

Royal Oak, Michigan

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Tupelo, Mississippi

Wiggins, Mississippi

Lincoln, Nebraska

Hudson, New Hampshire

Marlton, New Jersey

Himrod, New York

Lockport, New York

Cary, North Carolina

Concord, North Carolina

Cincinnati, Ohio(3 reports)

Glenmont, Ohio

Glouster, Ohio

Guysville, Ohio

Newark, Ohio

Edmond, Oklahoma

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Roland, Oklahoma

Stilwell, Oklahoma

Wellston, Oklahoma

Alexandria, Pennsylvania

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania

Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania

Arlington, Texas

Brenham, Texas

Cleburne, Texas

Edinburg, Texas

Fort Worth, Texas(2 reports)

Houston, Texas

Irving, Texas

Portland, Texas

San Isidro, Texas

Altoona, Wisconsin

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themikesmom

Concord, NC | March 2013 | Positive

Very lovely butterfly, we dont get these too often, but when we do, they seem to love purple flowers, particularly my son's purple butterfly bush, and our laura phlox in the front yard.

tabasco

Cincinnati (Anderson Twp), OH (Zone 6a) | June 2009 | Positive

We make rotten fruit 'bait stations' to try to lure this pretty butterfly to our yard, and we offer many kinds of butterfly nectar flowers and mud puddles for the Red Admirals too. They are quite attractive visitors and often show up in large numbers in some years.

We have stinging nettles, wood nettles and pellitory on our property to serve as host plants, but until recent years it was thought that the Red Admiral was a migrant to Ohio and unable to survive Ohio winters. Now there is some evidence to support resident populations here. (Ohio DNR 'Butterflies and Skippers of Ohio', p. 43.)

aggscott

Wilkes Barre, PA (Zone 6a) | May 2008 | Positive

The Red Admiral was one of the first butterflies in my area last year and would fight and chase the other butterflies off the flowers. I raised a few on Nettle and found that they are great to raise, easy as long as the Nettle your using isn't stinging Nettle!