Scientific name: Arthropoda: Insecta: Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Epargyreus clarus
Common Name: Silver-spotted Skipper
Country: USA
State/District: DC
County: not applicable
Date:
Photographer: E. M. Barrows
Identifier: E. M. Barrows
Collector: not applicable
Location: Ecology Laboratory Butterfly Garden
Keywords: A brown butterfly brown insect DMWP Garden-1 GU silver butterfly silver insect Additional Information:
This is a common species in the Washington, D.C., Area.
Figure 1.
Larval shelters from a culture of the GU Laboratory of Ecology.
Figure 2.
An adult sunning on a leaf of Giant Ragweed, Cabin John, MD, 3 June 2001.
Figure 3.
An adult sunning on a sunflower leaf, Bethesda, MD, 20 August 2001.
A bird might have removed part of this skipper’s forewing.
Figure 4.
An adult nectaring on Pickerelweed, Dyke Marsh Wildlife Preserve, VA, 21 August 2001.
Figure 5.
An old adult with tattered wings nectaring on Butterflybush ‘Petite Indigo,’ Bethesda, MD.
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