Scotts Bluff National Monument Butterfly Guide 🦋

Wingspan: 7/8 - 1 1/8 inches (2.2 - 2.9 cm)
Host plants: Various grasses including marsh millet (Zizaniopsis miliacea), rice cutgrass (Leersia oryzoides), and cultivated rice (Oryza sativa).
Overwintering stage: third and fourth stage caterpillars
Mate-Location system: patrolling
Flight: Three broods from May-October in most of the range, four broods from February-December in the Deep South and Texas.

Source: https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Ancyloxypha-numitor less ↑

Wingspan: 7/8 - 1 1/4 inches (2.2 - 3.2 cm)
Host plants: Various grasses including wild oats (Avena), bent grass (Agrostis), bluegrass (Poa), Bermuda grass (Cynodon dactylon), and Indian woodoats grass (Chasmanthium latifolia)
Overwintering stage: larvae
Mate-Location system: perching
Flight: One brood from March-July; a partial second brood up to September in the south.

https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Amblyscirtes-vialis
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Wingspan: 1 3/4 - 2 5/8 inches (4.5 - 6.7 cm)
Host plants: black locust (Robinia pseudacacia), honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos), false indigo (Amorpha species), and Glycyrrhiza species.
Overwintering stage: chrysalis
Mate-Location system: perching
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.

Source: https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Epargyreus-clarus less ↑

Wingspan: 7/8 - 1 3/8 inches (2.2- 3.8 cm)
Host plants: Various grasses including fescue (Festuca), brome (Bromus), bluegrass (Poa), needlegrass (Stipa), and beardgrass (Andropogon); sedges.
Adult food: Nectar from many flowers including asters, goldenrods, and blazing star.
Overwintering stage: eggs
Mate-Location system: perching
Flight: One brood from mid-July (as early as May in California) to late September.
Conservation status: G5 (secure globally), S3 (Vulnerable in NE)
https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Hesperia-colorado less ↑

Wingspan: 1 - 1 5/16 inches (2.5 - 3.3 cm)
Host plants: Lambsquarters (Chenopodium album), amaranths (Amaranthus), and cockscomb (Celosia).
Overwintering stage: Caterpillars of the second brood overwinter in their silk-lined leaf shelters
Mate-Location system: patrolling
Flight: 2 broods, 1 being from May-August in the north

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Color: Upperside of male is blue-gray; female is black.
Wingspan: 1 - 1 1/2 inches (2.5 - 3.8 cm)
Host plants: Several plants in the mallow family (Malvaceae) including globemallows (Sphaeralcea), mallow (Malva), hollyhock (Althaea), alkali mallows (Sida), velvet-leaf (Abutilon), and poppy mallow (Callirhoe)
Overwintering stage: fully grown caterpillars
Mate-Location system: patrolling
Flight: February-October in the Deep South, March-September in the north

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Wingspan: 1 - 1 11/16 inches (2.5 - 4.3 cm)
Host plants: Various grasses including panic grasses (Panicum) and bluegrasses (Poa).
Adult food: Nectar from flowers including common milkweed, henbit, viper's bugloss, and blackberry.
Overwintering stage:
Mate-Location system: perching
Flight: April-July

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