Edith's checkerspot
Edith's checkerspot is a butterfly with black wings checkered with red and pale yellow or white bands. Underneath, its wings have stripes of yellow orange and cream. It lives in the mountains and grasslands of western North America.
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Fun facts
Males often wait on hilltops for females to fly by.
Males visit streams and rock pools to drink and pick up salt and minerals.
Butterflies living high in the mountains are smaller and darker than the ones on the coast.
Three kinds of Edith's checkerspot are endangered and protected by law in the USA.
Many groups of these butterflies lay their eggs on just one kind of plant.
Most asked questions about Edith's checkerspot
?Where does Edith's checkerspot live?
In western North America, often on mountain ridges and grassy slopes.
?Is Edith's checkerspot endangered?
Some kinds of it are. Three are protected in the USA because of habitat loss and climate change.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Euphydryas editha
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Edith's checkerspot (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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