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Common Checkered-Skipper

Pyrgus communis

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Field Notes

Description:

Photo take in my backyard small about 1.5 cm wingspan found it on top of the flowers of an spinach tree plant.

Habitat:

This butterfly flies in gardens, parks, fields, roadsides, riverbanks, lowlands and foothills throughout southern Canada and almost the entire expanse of the United States all the way to México.

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Pyrgus communis

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Common Checkered-Skipper

Pyrgus communis

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Mexico Horn of Plenty
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Yucatan Peninsula Biodiversity

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PublishedMarch 18, 2012

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