Mandan Skipper Carterocephalus palaemon mandan Wing Span: EALT protects ecologically significant land The Edmonton and Area Land Trust (EALT) is 2.5 – 3.2 cm Habitat: Openings in a non-profit organization dedicated to which is important habitat for many forests; moist butterfly species. Support EALT by: conserving the region’s natural areas through meadows, and community stewardship. We work towards an streamsides. Volunteering! Visit ealt.ca/volunteer or Dorothy Monteith Edmonton region where natural area systems email [email protected] to get started. and their wildlife are valued and preserved for European Skipper Thymelicus lineola Donating! Visit ealt.ca/donate for more future generations. Wing Span: information. 2.5 – 2.9 cm On our conservation lands, it is common to Habitat: Open grassy Plant native flowers in your garden to see members of the Lepidoptera order, which areas like meadows, benefit butterflies. You can obtain native includes butterflies and moths. These insects pastures, road edges. flower seeds from the Edmonton Native share many similarities such as a life cycle INTRODUCED SPECIES Colleen Raymond Plant Group. that includes larvae, pupae, and flying adult stages. They also play a key role in their Passionate about identifying moths and Dreamy Duskywing ecosystem as pollinators. butterflies? Join the Alberta Erynnis icelus Wing Span: Lepidopterists’ Guild, visit http:// The easiest way to tell the difference between 2.9 – 3.8 cm www.biology.ualberta.ca/uasm/alg/ for these astonishing flying insects is to look at Habitat: Woodland more information. their antennae. If the antennae are thickened edges or openings. or club-like on the end, you are looking at a Colleen Raymond butterfly. If the antennae are feathered or Sources thread-like, you have found a moth. Hobomok Skipper http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/ Poanes hobomok http://www.insectsofalberta.com/ Wing Span: 2.5 – 4.3 cm Habitat: Edges and openings of damp woods, bogs, along Colleen Raymond #101, 10471 – 178 Street streams, and parks. Colleen Raymond Edmonton, AB T5S 1R5 780-483-7578 | [email protected] Canadian Tiger ealt.ca | @EdAreaLandTrust Swallowtail Once you have identified the species as a Papilio canadensis butterfly, use this guide to determine if it is Wing Span: one of these species, common to the 6.7 – 8 cm Habitat: Deciduous Edmonton region and EALT natural areas. and mixed woods and forest edges. Dorothy Monteith Cabbage White Spring Azure Mourning Cloak Greg Pohl Pieris rapae Celastrina ladon Nymphalis antiopa Common Ringlet Wing Span: 4.5-5.8 cm Wing Span: Wing Span: Coenonympha tullia Habitat: Open spaces 2.2 – 3.5 cm Wing Span: 5.7 – 10.1 cm including gardens, Habitat: Wooded 3 .4 – 3.8 cm roadsides, cities, and marshes and Habitat: Riparian Habitat: Grasslands, suburbs. swamps; openings areas, woods, and fields, and meadows. and edges of openings. INTRODUCED SPECIES Dorothy Monteith Colleen Raymond deciduous woods. Colleen Raymond Gerald Romanchuk Colleen Raymond Colleen Raymond Mustard White Purplish Copper Red-disked Satyr Anglewing Pieris oleracea Polygonia satyrus Lycaena helloides Wing Span: Alpine Wing Span: Wing Span: Erebia discoidalis 3.8 – 5.7 cm 4.5 – 6.4 cm 3-3.8 cm Wing Span: Habitat: Open Habitat: Streams, Habitat: Meadows, 3.8 – 4.9 cm forests and fields, wooded ravines, marshes, Habitat: Open grassy deciduous woods, marshes, fields, streamsides and bogs and other areas bogs, and openings and edges valleys. with acidic soils. Dorothy Monteith streamsides. of moist woods. Colleen Raymond EALT Western White Painted Lady Common Alpine Pontia occidentalis Vanessa cardui Erebia epipsodea Red Admiral Wing Span: Wing Span: Wing Span: Vanessa atalanta Wing Span: 3.8 – 6.3 cm 5.1 – 7.3 cm 4.2 – 5.1 cm 4.5 – 7.6 cm Habitat: Dry areas, Habitat: Almost Habitat: Moist open Habitat: Moist fields, pastures, everywhere, grassy fields, woods, parks, sandy areas, railroad especially in open or meadows, and open marshes, and fields. beds, and roads. disturbed areas. forests. Dorothy Monteith Shirley Jacobsen Colleen Raymond Dorcas Copper Northern Crescent Colleen Raymond Viceroy Milbert’s Lycaena dorcas Phyciodes cocyta Limenitis archippus Tortoiseshell Wing Span: Wing Span: Wing Span: Aglais milberti 2.5 – 3.2 cm 3.2-4.8 cm 6.3 – 8.6 cm Wing Span: Habitat: Edges of Habitat: Moist open 4.2 – 6.3 cm Habitat: Moist, open or Habitat: Wet areas bogs, old brushy areas in rocky shrubby areas such as places, and wooded near woodlands; fields, open places lake and swamp edges, near small streams. streams. marshes and moist and wet meadows. Dragomir Vujnovic pastures. Colleen Raymond Colleen Raymond Colleen Raymond Greenish Blue Common Plebejus saepiolus Atlantis Fritillary White Admiral Wing Span: Speyeria atlantis Wood-nymph Limenitis arthemis Wing Span: 5-7 cm Cercyonis pegala Wing Span: 2.5 – 3.2 cm Habitat: Meadows, Wing Span: 4.5 - 7.6 5.7 – 10.1 cm Habitat: Bogs, open bogs, forest cm Habitat: Deciduous fields, meadows, openings, and Habitat: Grassy or mixedwood stream edges, and upland pastures. areas, prairies, open forests. open forests. meadows, bogs. EALT Colleen Raymond .