Summary ²

The Silver-Spotted Skipper (wingspan: 43 - 67 mm) can be found in fields, gardens, and forest edges across southern Canada and throughout most of the United States. Caterpillars feed on a variety of woody and select herbaceous legumes. Adults prefer to gather nectar from blue, red, pink and purple flowers.

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1. (c) Bob Chinn, all rights reserved, uploaded by Bob Chinn
2. Adapted by Bob Chinn from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epargyreus_clarus

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