In this group, no male stays long in one place as he courses about searching for females. Among the best known of the perchers in North America are Painted Ladies and Red Admirals. In these species, males perch in the afternoon and patiently wait for females to appear on hilltops or along paths and walkways. The wonderful wing-bar display of the Barred Sulphur. Hey, if you've got it, flaunt it.
Females are another story.
Usually they are found by a male very soon after emerging from the chrysalis. Or, they themselves fly to the areas where the males have set up territories. In either case they usually welcome a male's advances. But after this initial mating they typically become unreceptive to male courtship attempts and focus their time and energies on egg-laying. Prospecting for mates Most butterfly interactions begin when a male, eager to court and mate, rushes toward any other butterfly that even vaguely resembles a female.