Viceroy Butterfly with Detailed Wing Veins Coloring Page
Strong veins split every wing into long tapered cells, with white flecked black borders and a neatly ringed body between them.
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Veins are the subject here, not the spots. Heavy lines run out from the body to the wing edge in every direction, twelve or more per side, and they divide each wing into long tapered cells that grow wider as they travel. Nothing interrupts them. No scatter of markings crosses the middle of the wing, which is unusual for this set and makes the structure easy to read.
Black borders wrap all four wing edges. Each one holds a line of white flecks, oval at the top of the wing and rounder toward the bottom corner, and on the hindwings the black dips inward between the veins in a row of small arches.
The body sits high and narrow: a small thorax, an abdomen ruled into eight rings, and two straight antennae tipped with solid dots.
Viceroys look so much like monarchs that people assumed for a century the viceroy was a harmless copy. It is not. Both taste bad, and each one reinforces the other's warning.
Follow the veins with a darker pencil once the cells are filled. The whole wing lifts when the framework goes in last.
