Question Mark Butterfly vs Promethea Moth

Side-by-side species comparison

Question Mark Butterfly

Orange butterfly with dark spots and irregular wing margins. A silvery question-mark shape on the underside of the hindwing gives it its name.

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It rarely visits flowers, preferring to feed on fermenting fruit, sap, and animal dung.

A large silk moth with strong sexual dimorphism. Males are dark with tan margins while females are reddish-brown with lighter markings.

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Males fly during the afternoon which is unusual for silk moths and they are sometimes mistaken for dark-colored swallowtail butterflies.