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Butterflies and Moths' Habitat:

Alfalfa Fields

 

*Note:  Alfalfa Fields are privately owned.  If you would like to collect bugs there, it is best if you first get permission from the property owner first.

Butterfly Species For This Habitat:

Whites and Sulphurs (Family Pieridae)

Checkered White (Pieris protodice)
Western White (Pieris occidentalis)
Cabbage White (Pieris rapae)
Large Marble (Euchloe ausonides coloradensis)
Clouded Sulphur (Colias philodice eriphyle)
Orange Sulphur (Colias eurytheme)

Brush-footed Butterflies (Family Nymphalidae)

Field Crescent (Phyciodes pratensis camillus)
Thistle Crescent (Phyciodes mylitta mylitta)
Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui)
West Coast Lady (Vanessa carye annabella)
Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta rubria)

Gossamer-wing Butterflies (Family Lycaenidae)

Purplish Copper (Lycaena dorcas helloides)
Gray Hairstreak (Strymon melinus franki)
Western Pygmy-Blue (Brephidium exile)
Reakirt's Blue (Hemiargus isola alce)
Melissa Blue (Plebejus melissa melissa)

Milkweed Butterflies (Family Danaidae)

Monarch (Danaus plexippus)

Satyrs (Family Satyridae)

Common Wood Nymph (Cercyonis pegala utahensis)

 

 

Skippers (Family Hesperiidae)

Common Checkered-Skipper (Pyrgus communis)
Common Sootywing (Pholisora catullus)
Juba Skipper (Hesperia juba)
          Sandhill Skipper (Polites sabuleti sabuleti)
Tawny-edged Skipper (Polites themistocles)
Woodland Skipper (Ochlodes sylvanoides napa)
 

Moth Species For This Habitat:

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