Art Shapiro's Butterfly Site
Monitoring butterfly populations across Central California for more than 35 years… Chlosyne lacinia
Common Name: Bordered Patch
A common species of the Southwest deserts which somehow became briefly established in North Sacramento in the early 1970s (a couple of records also in West Sacramento, across the river) but died out quickly; it is not properly part of our fauna. It is extremely variable phenotypically. Multiple broods; host plants Sunflowers (Helianthus), including H. annuus in our area.
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