Northern checkerspot
The northern checkerspot is a butterfly with a checkered pattern of dark brown, light orange and tan, like a little quilt. Underneath, its wings have rows of red and yellow squares. It lives in western North America.
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Fun facts
It is easy to mix up with two very similar cousins, the sagebrush checkerspot and Hoffmann's checkerspot.
It flies once a year, from April to May, or until July high in the mountains.
Its wings measure about 3 to 5 centimetres from tip to tip.
Most asked questions about Northern checkerspot
?What does the northern checkerspot eat?
Its caterpillars eat goldenrod, rabbitbrush and asters.
?Where does the northern checkerspot live?
In western North America, from southern Canada to California and Colorado.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Chlosyne palla
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Chlosyne palla (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 Ingrid Taylar. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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