is the steely-blue colored Red-spotted purple (Limenitis
arthemis astyanax). It tends to be a butterfly of woodlands
as well as fruit orchard haunts.
These butterflies absolutely LOVE sap oozing from tree wounds
and of coarse anything having to do with fermenting fruit !
Males and females are similarly marked however, males are
noticeably smaller but, are bolder in their colors particularly
when quite fresh.
Here I have posted a quite fresh example wild captured.
