Yup, that's a Gulf Fritillary and if you want to see more of them, plant their host plant, Passion Vine (Passiflora spp.). I just wanted to mention that butterflies are adults when they emerge. The juvenile form is the caterpillar. When a butterfly emerges, it will never grow any larger, and won't change pattern except for loss of scales due to age, weather, tangling with predators, etc. I get that question a lot so I thought I'd throw that out there.« Return to the thread "Milkweed and Monarchs (is this a young monarch)?"
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