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They are generally weak fliers and often shun bright sunlight, preferring moist and semishaded habitats. The caterpillars feed chiefly on monocotyledonous plants such as palms, grasses, and bamboos.
Satyrodes appalachia, the Appalachian brown or woods eyed brown [3] is a species of Satyrinae butterfly that is native to North America. Wingspan: 39 to 51 mm. [2] Larvae on Rhynchospora inundata, Carex lacustris, and Carex stricta. [2] [3] See Lethe appalachia (Lethe = current genus name) at Wikipedia for more Satyrodes appalachia information.
BOSTON - A treasure hunt that spanned much of the northeast before being narrowed to the woods of Massachusetts has turned up gold. The creators of Project Skydrop said that somebody picked up the ...
The proposed US–Mexico border wall is slated to pass through the grounds of the National Butterfly Center. [7] [8] Filmmaker Krista Schlyer, part of an all-woman team creating a documentary film about the butterflies and the border wall, Ay Mariposa, [9] estimates that construction would put "70 percent of the preserve habitat behind the border wall."
The speckled wood (Pararge aegeria) is a butterfly found in and on the borders of woodland areas throughout much of the Palearctic realm. [1] The species is subdivided into multiple subspecies, including Pararge aegeria aegeria, [1] Pararge aegeria tircis, Pararge aegeria oblita, and Pararge aegeria insula. [2]
Lethe is a genus of butterflies in the subfamily Satyrinae of the family Nymphalidae.The genus was erected by Jacob Hübner in 1819. It includes the treebrowns, woodbrowns, foresters and their relatives.
Listed alphabetically: [1] Cercyonis pegala (Fabricius, 1775) – common wood-nymph or large wood-nymph; Cercyonis meadii (Edwards, 1872) – red-eyed wood-nymph or Mead's wood-nymph
Icaricia icarioides, [1] or Boisduval's blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae found in North America. This butterfly has 25 recognized subspecies. [2] Their range extends throughout the western US and Canada from southern Saskatchewan to British Columbia. [3] Its habitats include dunes, mountains, meadows, streams, and sage-lands.