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  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Skippers
  7. Carterocephalus
  8. Chequered Skipper
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What supports Chequered Skipper

18 native plants
support it in the US
8 caterpillar hosts 10 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

8 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Scandinavian Small-reed Calamagrostis purpurea
  • Purple Reedgrass Calamagrostis purpurascens
  • Common Reed Phragmites australis
  • Wood Millet Milium effusum
  • California Brome Bromus carinatus
  • Slim-stem Small-reedgrass Calamagrostis stricta
  • Pumpelly's Bromegrass Bromus pumpellianus
  • Sitka Brome Bromus sitchensis

Nectar plants All

10 native plants whose flowers it visits, most recorded first.

  • Common Yarrow Achillea millefolium
  • Woodland Strawberry Fragaria vesca keystone
  • Cuckooflower Cardamine pratensis
  • Herb Robert Geranium robertianum
  • Marsh Marigold Caltha palustris
  • Hedge Bindweed Calystegia sepium
  • Sea Thrift Armeria maritima
  • Common Mouse-ear Chickweed Cerastium holosteoides
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