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Scientific Name: Leptotes marina
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Diet: Caterpillar hosts are legumes including alfalfa, wisteria, rattleweed and mesquite. Larvae eat buds, blossoms and seed pods. Adults feed on flower nectar
Vegetation Association: Legumes. Habitat is weedy open areas often along water courses.
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 to find females.
Photo: To be added.
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