Mandan Carterocephalus Get Involved! Introduction palaemon mandan Wing Span: EALT protects ecologically significant land The Edmonton and Area Land Trust (EALT) is a 2.5 – 3.2 cm which is important habitat for many non-profit organization dedicated to Habitat: Openings species. Support EALT by: conserving the region’s natural areas through in forests; moist meadows, and community stewardship. We work towards an Volunteering! Visit www.ealt.ca/volunteer or Dorothy Monteith streamsides. Edmonton region where natural area systems email [email protected] to get started. and their wildlife are valued and preserved for European Skipper Donating! Visit www.ealt.ca/donate for more future generations. Thymelicus lineola information. Wing Span: On our conservation lands, it is common to 2.5 – 2.9 cm see members of the order, which Habitat: Open grassy areas like meadows, includes and moths. These pastures, road edges. share many similarities such as a life cycle that INTRODUCED SPECIES includes larvae, pupae, and flying adult stages. Colleen Raymond They also play a key role in their ecosystem as pollinators. Dreamy Erynnis icelus The easiest way to tell the difference between Wing Span: 2.9 – 3.8 cm these astonishing flying insects is to look at Habitat: Woodland their antennae. If the antennae are thickened edges or openings. Plant native flowers in your garden to benefit or club-like on the end, you are looking at a butterflies. You can obtain native flower seeds butterfly. If the antennae are feathered or Colleen Raymond from the Edmonton Native Plant Group. thread-like, you have found a moth. Hobomok Skipper Passionate about identifying moths and hobomok Butterfly Antennae Moth Antennae Wing Span: butterflies? Join the Lepidopterists’ 2.5 – 4.3 cm Guild, visit http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/ Habitat: Edges and uasm/alg/ for more information. openings of damp woods, bogs, along Colleen Raymond streams, and parks. Sources: Colleen Raymond http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/ http://www.insectsofalberta.com/ Betty Fisher Canadian Tiger Once you have identified the species as a Swallowtail butterfly, use this guide to determine if it is Papilio canadensis one of these species, common to the Wing Span: 6.7 – 8 cm Edmonton region and EALT natural areas. Habitat: Deciduous ISBN: 978-0-9949021-3-9 and mixed woods and forest edges.

Dorothy Monteith Cabbage White Spring Azure Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa rapae Celastrina ladon Common Ringlet Wing Span: 4.5-5.8 cm Wing Span: Wing Span: Coenonympha tullia Habitat: Open spaces 2.2 – 3.5 cm 5.7 – 10.1 cm Wing Span: including gardens, Habitat: Wooded Habitat: Riparian 3 .4 – 3.8 cm roadsides, cities, and marshes and areas, woods, Habitat: Grasslands, suburbs. swamps; openings and openings. Greg Pohl fields and meadows. INTRODUCED SPECIES and edges of Dorothy Monteith deciduous woods. Colleen Raymond Colleen Raymond Red-disked Mustard White Colleen Raymond Alpine Satyr Anglewing Pieris oleracea Purplish Copper Erebia discoidalis Polygonia satyrus Wing Span: helloides Wing Span: Wing Span: 3.8 – 5.7 cm Wing Span: 3.8 – 4.9 cm 4.5 – 6.4 cm Habitat: Open 3-3.8 cm Habitat: Open Habitat: Streams, forests and fields, Habitat: Meadows, grassy bogs and wooded ravines, deciduous woods, marshes, other areas with marshes, fields, bogs, and streamsides and acidic soils. Colleen Raymond openings and edges streamsides. valleys. Dorothy Monteith Gerald Romanchuk Common Alpine of moist woods. Colleen Raymond Erebia epipsodea Dorothy Monteith Western White Wing Span: Red Admiral Pontia occidentalis Painted Lady Vanessa cardui 4.2 – 5.1 cm Vanessa atalanta Wing Span: Wing Span: Habitat: Moist Wing Span: 3.8 – 6.3 cm 5.1 – 7.3 cm 4.5 – 7.6 cm Habitat: Dry areas, open grassy fields, Habitat: Almost Habitat: Moist fields, pastures, meadows, and everywhere, woods, parks, sandy areas, railroad open forests. especially in open or EALT marshes, and fields. beds, and roads. Shirley Jacobsen disturbed areas. Viceroy Milbert’s Colleen Raymond Limenitis archippus Dorcas Copper Colleen Raymond Tortoiseshell Lycaena dorcas Wing span: Northern Crescent Aglais milberti Wing Span: 6.3 – 8.6 cm Phyciodes cocyta Wing Span: 2.5 – 3.2 cm Wing Span: 3.2-4.8 cm Habitat: Moist, 4.2 – 6.3 cm Habitat: Edges of Habitat: Moist open open or shrubby Habitat: Wet bogs, old brushy areas in rocky places, areas such as areas near fields, open places Dragomir Vujnovic Colleen Raymond and wooded streams. lake and swamp woodlands; near small streams. edges, and wet meadows. marshes and moist pastures. Silvery Blue Common Colleen Raymond White Admiral Glaucopsyche lygdamus Atlantis Fritillary Limenitis arthemis Speyeria atlantis Wood-nymph Wing Span: Wing Span: 2.2 – 3.2 cm Wing Span: 5 – 7 cm Cercyonis pegala Wing Span: 4.5 - 7.6 cm 5.7 – 10.1 cm Habitat: Open Habitat: Meadows, Habitat: Grassy areas, Habitat: woods, prairies, bogs, forest prairies, open Deciduous or meadows, and openings, and upland meadows, bogs. mixedwood brushy fields. pastures. EALT Colleen Raymond Colleen Raymond forests.