Silver-spotted Skipper

Description:

A blackish brown skipper butterfly that has yellow markings and a metallic silver band on the underside of the hindwing.

Habitat:

Spotted nectaring on lavender in a garden in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Habitat: Disturbed and open woods, foothill streamcourses, prairie waterways. Range: Extreme southern Canada and most of the continental United States except the Great Basin and west Texas; northern Mexico.

Notes:

Adult Food: The Silver-spotted Skipper almost never visits yellow flowers but favors blue, red, pink, purple, and sometimes white and cream-colored ones. These include everlasting pea, common milkweed, red clover, buttonbush, blazing star, and thistles.