Checkerspots & Crescents Inornate Ringlet ↓ Coenonympha tullia

The Ringlet has a

Harris’s Checkerspot Chlosyne harrisii bouncy, irregular

Pearl Crescent ↓ Phyciodes tharos flight pattern. Abundant in open Crescents fly from fields from late May May to October. to early October. Especially common Common Wood Nymph ↓ Cercyonis pegala on dirt roads. Pearl and Northern hard The Common to differentiate. Wood Nymph is

Northern Pearl Crescent Phyciodes cocyta very abundant. Flies from July to Eastern Comma Polygonia comma Sept. along wood Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa edges and fields. Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta ______Butterflies American Lady ↓ Vanessa virginiensis ______of ______American Lady

found on dirt Swan Island

roads and open Perkins TWP, patches in fields. Steve Powell Wildlife Flight period is

April to October. Management Area

White Admiral Limenitis arthemis Viceroy Limenitis archippus

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Satyrs Great Spangled Fritillary Northern Pearly-Eye Enodia anthedon Eyed Brown ↓ Satyrodes eurydice

Eyed Brown found

in wet, wooded Swan Island – Explore with us! www.maine.gov/swanisland edges. Has erratic Maine Survey Checklist and brochure created by Robert E. flight pattern. Flies mbs.umf.maine.edu from late June to Gobeil and Rose Marie F. Gobeil in cooperation with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries Photos of Maine early August. and Wildlife (MDIFW). www.mainebutterflies.com Photos by Rose Marie F. Gobeil Little Wood Satyr Megisto cymela ______SECOND PRINTING: APRIL 2019 Skippers Pepper & Salt Amblyscirtes hegon Banded Hairstreak ↓ Satyrium calanus Swallowtails Banded Hairstreak: Silver-spotted Skipper ↓Epargyreus clarus uncommon, found Silver-spotted Black Swallowtail Papilio polyxenes in open glades in Skipper is large Canadian Tiger Swallowtail ↓ Papilio canadensis wooded areas. Flies from late with bright white Canadian Tiger spot on wings. June to early Sept. Swallowtail: large, Flight period from bright yellow with Eastern Tailed Blue ↓ Cupido comyntas May to August. black stripes. Flight The Eastern Tailed Northern Cloudywing Thorybes pylades period is May to Blue is small and early August. Least Skipper blue in color. Flies European Skipper ↓ Thymelicus lineola ______low to ground in The Banded ______fields. Flight period European Skipper: Hairstreak abundant . Sulphurs mid-May to Oct. Hundreds can be Cherry Gall Azure Celastrina seritona Cabbage White seen in late June Silvery Blue Glaucopsyche lygdamus Clouded Sulphur ↓ philodice and early July in Monarch open meadows. Clouded Sulphur is Indian Skipper HesperiaFlies sassacusJune to Aug. bright yellow. Monarch ↓ Danaus plexippus Commonly seen Peck’s Skipper ↓ peckius The Monarch is flying in meadows. Peck’s Skipper is associated with Flight period is small with bright milkweed plants. May to early Nov. yellow on wings. Common in late Seen in meadows. Butterfly summer and fall Flies from late May ______during migration.

to early October. ______Fritillaries Tawny-edged Skipper Coppers, Hairstreaks & Blues Long Dash Skipper Great Spangled Fritillary Speyeria cybele American Copper Lycaena phlaeas Northern Broken Dash egeremet Aphoodite Fritillary Speyeria aphrodite Bronze Copper ↓ Lycaena hyllus Hobomok Skipper Poanes hobomok Silver-bordered Fritillary ↓Boloria selene Bronze Copper is Dun Skipper ↓ Euphyes vestris Silver-bordered an uncommon Fritillary: medium The Dun Skipper is species found in size, bright orange small, dark brown wet meadows. in color. Flies from in color with rapid Flies from mid- mid-May to late flight. Open fields. June to early Oct. Flies from late September. Eastern Pine Elfin Callophrys niphon June to early Sept. ______Meadow Fritillary Boloria bellona ______