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Some Butterflies and Skippers of Marshes, Bogs, and Salt Marshes |
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This page contains photographs of and information about some of the butterflies and skippers found in aquatic environments such as bogs, swamps, marshes, and salt marshes. |
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The Bog Copper (Lycanidae) occurs in acid bogs in the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada. The larvae feed on shrubby cranberries (Vaccinium) of the heath family (Ericaceae).
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The Baltimore (Nymphalidae) occurs throughout the eastern United States, although it is apparently more common in the north than in the south. The species occurs primarily in wet meadows, marshes, and bogs where its primary foodplant, Turtlehead, grows. This is the only species of Euphydryas in the east, but there are three related species in western North America.
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The Eyed Brown (Nymphalidae - Satyrinae) occurs in the northeastern and north-central United States, and southern Canada as far west as eastern Montana. The species lives in sedge meadows, freshwater marshes, and along slow-moving streams were the sedges that are its foodplants grow. The adults fly weakly among the undergrow in these habitats.
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The Bog Elfin (Lycaenidae) is a hairstreak (although with tails) with a limited range in New England and southeastern Canada. The species is restricted to Black-Spruce-Tamarack Bogs. The foodplant of the larvae is Black Spruce. This is one of a number of closely related species feeding on conifers.
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The Dion Skipper (Hesperiidae) occurs throughout the eastern Unitd States and Southern Canada as far east as the Great Plains. This skipper can be found in swamps, open marshes, and bogs where the sedges the larvae feed on are found.
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Aaron's Skipper (Hesperiidae) is found in the coastal salt marshes of the mid-Atlantic region southward around Florida and westward to eastern Texas. The larvae may feed on Spartina, the dominant grass in salt marshes, but the life history of this species has never been recorded in the literature.
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