Variegated Fritillary Butterfly

This Fritillary is a different color from the other species which are mostly orange and silver.
The Variegated flies with shallow wingbeats.  They like open areas, roadsides, meadows and desert scrub. They feed on a wide variety of flowers, this one feeding on Lantana.

Variegated Fritillary's stay in the southern part of North American most of the summer before migrating south for winter.

"Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out."
Song of Solomon 4:16  KJV