Arthropoda: Insecta: Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Epargyreus clarus [return to Home Page]

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Scientific name: Arthropoda: Insecta: Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Epargyreus clarus
Common Name: Silver-spotted Skipper

Country: USA
State/District: DC
County: not applicable
Date: 13 Sept 2001

Photographer: D. S. Kjar

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Collector: not applicable

Location: Georgetown University Campus

Ecology Laboratory Butterfly Gardens

Keywords: A brown butterfly brown insect DMWP Garden-1 GU pollination pollinator silver butterfly silver insect
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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:
Keywords: A brown butterfly brown insect caterpillar DMWP Garden-1 GU silver butterfly silver insect
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This is a common species in the Washington, D.C., Area. These larvae are from a lab culture of the GU Ecology Laboratory.



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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
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           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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Scientific name: Arthropoda: Insecta: Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Epargyreus clarus
Common Name: Silver-spotted Skipper

Country: USA
State/District:
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Date: 21 Sept 2001

Photographer: J. J. Cravens

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Keywords: A brown butterfly brown insect DMWP Garden-1 GU silver butterfly silver insect
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