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In the Algonquin Highlands you will find these short-lived butterflies in grassy areas, open deciduous forests, moist meadows, and streamsides from June-July.
They are pale yellow-orange with dark borders and markings, with some white edges on small spots near the margins of the hindwings, which have a silvery sheen to them. The underside of the wings are pale. Its wingspan is 3.5 – 4.8 cm.
The female lays greenish eggs in clusters of about 100 on the underside of leaves of many different flowers such as Asters, Coneflowers and Sunflowers. Caterpillars are black with orange stripes, white and purple specks, and many branching spines.
Adult Silvery Checkerspot feed on nectar from flowers of Common Milkweed, Dogbane and Red Clover.
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SILVERY CHECKERSPOT
Chlosyne nycteis
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