A Monarch Butterfly uses its long proboscis like a drinking straw to suck nectar from a zinnia. The Monarch spends the winter in Mexico and migrates up to 2,000-mile.
White Admiral Butterfly
A White Admiral Butterfly gathers the nectar of a purple coneflower. This butterfly also eats rotting fruit, dung, tree sap and carrion.
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Milbert's Tortoiseshell Butterfly
Milbert's Tortoiseshell (Nymphalis milberti [Godart])
Wing span: 1 5/8 inches - 2 1/2 inches (4.2 - 6.3 cm).
Identification: Forewing tip squared-off. Upperside is black with a wide orange submarginal band which grades to yellow at the inner edge of band. Narrow black marginal border on both wings; there may be blue spots on the hindwing border of this butterfly.
Butterfly Life history: In the afternoon, male butterflies perch on hillsides, banks of gulches, logs, or behind bushes to watch for females. Eggs are laid in large batches of up to 900 on the underside of host plant leaves. Young butterfly jewelry and caterpillars feed together in a web, while older ones feed alone and make shelters of folded leaves tied with silk. Adults hibernate, sometimes in small groups.
Flight: Two broods from May-October.
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Silver-spotted Skipper Butterfly
Silver-spotted Skipper (Epargyreus clarus [Cramer])
Wing span: 1 3/4 - 2 5/8 inches (4.5 - 6.7 cm).
Identification: Wings are brown-black; hindwing is lobed. Forewing has transparent gold spots; underside of hindwing has a metallic silver band.
Life history: Adults perch upside down under leaves at night and on hot or cloudy days. To seek females males perch on branches and tall weeds, and occasionally patrol. Females lay single eggs near the host trees, and the caterpillars must find their proper host. Young caterpillars live in a folded leaf shelter; older ones live in a nest of silked-together leaves. Chrysalids hibernate.
Flight: Two broods from May-September in most of the East, a single brood to the north and west, three-four broods from February-December in the Deep South.
Caterpillar hosts: Many woody legumes including black locust (Robinia pseudacacia), honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) and false indigo (Amorpha species). Also selected herbaceous legumes such s Glycyrrhiza species.
Adult Butterfly food: The Silver-spotted Skipper buttefly almost never visits yellow flowers but favors blue, red, pink, purple, and sometimes white and cream-colored ones. These include everlasting pea, common milkweed, red clover, buttonbush, blazing star, and thistles.
Butterfly Habitat: Disturbed and open woods, foothill stream courses, prairie waterways.
Butterfly Range: Extreme southern Canada and most of the continental United States except the Great Basin and west Texas; northern Mexico.
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