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Common Checkered-Skipper
Pyrgus communis
42.9634, -85.6681
Field Notes
Description:
The Common Checkered-Skipper can be near impossible to differentiate from the White Checkered-Skipper in areas where the ranges overlap (Southwestern states & Florida).
Habitat:
February-October in southern U.S. & northern Mexico , March-September in northern U.S. & southern Ontario.
Open, sunny places with low vegetation and some bare soil - prairies, meadows, fields, roadsides, gardens, woodland edges.
Host plants: Plants in the mallow family (Malvaceae) including globemallows (Sphaeralcea), mallow (Malva), hollyhock (Althaea), alkali mallows (Sida), velvet-leaf (Abutilon), and poppy mallow (Callirhoe).
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Photographed
PublishedDecember 6, 2011
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