Scientific Name: Chlosyne lacinia
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Diet: Larvae food is wild sunflower, ragweed, crownbeard, and cockleburs. Adults feed on flower nectar.
Vegetation Association: Host plants are wild sunflower which grows along banks and agricultural fields. Other host plants include ragweed, crownbeard, and cockleburs. Their habitat is pinyon or oak woodlands, thorn forest, desert hills, fields and road edges.
Predators:
Life Stages: Complete metamorphosis; egg, larva, pupa, adult.
Notes: Young caterpillars feed and shed their skin, or molt. The final molt produces the pupa, and then the butterfly rests. Once free of the chrysalis, fluid from its body is pumped into its wings, the wings then are allowed to dry before it flies away to look for food and a mate. Males patrol host plants during the day looking for females.
Photo: To be added.
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