Pearl Crescent

Description:

Wing Span: 1 1/4 - 1 3/4 inches (3.2 - 4.5 cm) Its pattern is quite variable. Males usually have black antennal knobs. Its upperside is orange with black borders; postmedian and submarginal areas are crossed by fine black marks. The underside of the hindwing has a dark marginal patch containing a light-colored crescent.

Habitat:

Southeastern Alberta south through Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and southeastern California to Mexico; east to southern Ontario and all the eastern United States. Open areas such as pastures, road edges, vacant lots, fields, open pine woods. Nectar from a great variety of flowers including dogbane, swamp milkweed, shepherd's needle, asters, and winter cress, coreopsis,

Notes:

This Pearl Crescent was feeding on Lanceleaf Coreopsis (Coreopsis lanceloata)