Common Checkered-Skipper (Pyrgus communis)

Common Checkered-Skipper (Pyrgus communis)

Common throughout North Carolina, found most often in fields and waste areas where their host plants - weedy mallows - grow.

Orange Co., NC 9/30/05.

Common Checkered-Skipper (Pyrgus communis) Durham Co., NC 8/17/03.
Common Checkered-Skipper (Pyrgus communis) Orange Co., NC 10/19/02.
Common Checkered-Skipper (Pyrgus communis)

Holly Shelter Game Land, Pender Co., NC 9/3/03.

Common Checkered-Skipper (Pyrgus communis)

This one has an ant on its abdomen.

Harnett Co., NC 7/30/02.

Common Checkered-Skipper (Pyrgus communis)

Clay Co., NC 5/20/07.

North Carolina Butterflies

Revised 4/5/08 cwcook@duke.edu