Gorgone checkerspot
The gorgone checkerspot is an orange butterfly with black markings, like a little chequered flag. Its back wings have a row of round black dots. Underneath, it has a zigzag pattern of brown and white bands.
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Fun facts
In the north it has one family of young each summer, in the middle of its range two, and in the south three.
The mother lays her eggs in groups on the underside of leaves.
The young caterpillars eat together in a group.
The caterpillars sleep through the winter and wake up again in spring.
It lives between the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachian Mountains.
Most asked questions about Gorgone checkerspot
?How big is the gorgone checkerspot?
Its wings measure about 3 to 4.5 centimetres from tip to tip.
?What does the gorgone checkerspot eat?
The butterfly drinks nectar from flowers, often yellow ones. Its caterpillars eat sunflowers and similar plants.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Chlosyne gorgone
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Chlosyne gorgone (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 Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado State University, Bugwood.org. CC BY 3.0 us, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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