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, Maine patches in fields. Steve Powell Wildlife Flight period is April to October. Management Area White Admiral Limenitis arthemis Viceroy Limenitis archippus ______________________________________ ______________________________________ 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 Butterfly Survey flight pattern. Flies Checklist and brochure created by Robert E. 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 Butterflies early August. www.mainebutterflies.com and Wildlife (MDIFW). Photos by Rose Marie F. Gobeil Little Wood Satyr Megisto cymela ______________________________________ SECOND PRINTING: APRIL 2019 Skippers Pepper & Salt Skipper 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 Ancyloxypha numitor blue in color. Flies European Skipper ↓ Thymelicus lineola ______________________________________ low to ground in The Banded ______________________________________ fields. Flight period European Skipper: Hairstreak abundant species. Sulphurs mid-May to Oct. Hundreds can be Cherry Gall Azure Celastrina seritona Cabbage White Pieris rapae seen in late June Silvery Blue Glaucopsyche lygdamus and early July in Clouded Sulphur ↓ Colias philodice open meadows. Monarch Clouded Sulphur is Indian Skipper HesperiaFlies sassacusJune to Aug. bright yellow. Monarch ↓ Danaus plexippus Commonly seen Peck’s Skipper ↓ Polites 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. Alfalfa Butterfly Colias eurytheme summer and fall Flies from late May ______________________________________ during migration. to early October. ______________________________________ Fritillaries Tawny-edged Skipper Polites themistocles Coppers, Hairstreaks & Blues Long Dash Skipper Polites mystic Great Spangled Fritillary Speyeria cybele American Copper Lycaena phlaeas Northern Broken Dash Wallengrenia 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 ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ .