Sagebrush checkerspot
The sagebrush checkerspot is a butterfly from western North America. Its wings are covered in a pattern of little squares, like a checkerboard. It looks so much like two of its cousins that even experts can mix them up.
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Fun facts
It is easy to mix up with the northern checkerspot and Hoffmann's checkerspot.
In Canada it has one flying season a year, somewhere between May and early September.
Its caterpillars grow up on rabbitbrush, a tough little bush of dry country.
Most asked questions about Sagebrush checkerspot
?How big is the sagebrush checkerspot?
Its open wings are about 3 to 4.5 centimetres across.
?Where does the sagebrush checkerspot live?
In western North America, from the western United States up to southern Alberta in Canada.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Chlosyne acastus
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Chlosyne acastus (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 Pacific Southwest Region U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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