Juniper Hairstreak is fairly common in North Carolina, found wherever their host plant, Eastern Redcedar (Juniperus virginiana), grows.
Flat River impoundment, Falls Lake, Durham Co., NC 4/13/03.
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| Juniper Hairstreak is fairly common in North Carolina, found wherever their host plant, Eastern Redcedar (Juniperus virginiana), grows. Flat River impoundment, Falls Lake, Durham Co., NC 4/13/03. |
| Knap of Reeds Creek impoundment, Falls Lake, Granville Co., NC 4/29/07. |
| Pulaski Co., VA 7/13/07. |
| These mint-green gems feed on Eastern Redcedar (Juniperus virginiana) leaves as larvae. The female at left is busy laying eggs on the host plant. Penny's Bend Nature Preserve, Durham Co., NC 6/8/03. They have a great fondness for mint flowers, especially Pycnanthemum (mountain-mint), though the individual above is nectaring on Winter Cress (Barbarea vulgaris). Our only similar butterfly is the rare and local Hessel's Hairstreak (Callophrys hesseli) of the Coastal Plain. |
| On goldenrod (Solidago). Harnett Co., NC 8/18/05. |
| This one is on fennel. Caswell Co., NC 8/4/02. |
| Ones in Texas tend to be a little browner. Eisenhower Park, San Antonio, Bexar Co., TX 6/7/04. |