Variable Checkerspot ssp. maria
Euphydryas anicia maria

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#3 Fifth Instar located 5 June 2009


#3  Fifth Instar on 5 June 2009


#3 Fifth Instar on 5 June 2009


#3 Fifth Instar on 8 June 2009


#3 Fifth Instar on 9 June 2009


#3 Fifth Instar on 9 June 2009


#5 Fifth Instar on 9 June 2009


#5 Fifth Instar on 9 June 2009



Pupa #1 formed 7 June 2009 - Butterfly hatched 16 June 2009  5:43 P.M.
Photos taken on 15 June 2009


16 June 2009 - 5:27 P.M.

16 June 2009 - 5:27 P.M.

16 June 2009 - 5:27 P.M.
15 minutes before butterfly emerged

16 June 2009 - 5:28 P.M.
15 minutes before butterfly emerged




PHOTOS - ©Nicky Davis
LOCATION: Mineral Fork Trail, Big Cottonwood, Salt lake County, Utah
GPS:  40.38.08.15 N.,  111.46.70 W.
ELEVATION: 6774 feet

PHOTOS:
Photos of fifth instars.  The larvae that stopped feeding and were apparently back in diapause were taken back to the Mineral Fork Trail and placed on the penstemon.

#3 larva formed "J"  pending pupation on 7 June, 2009.

LIFE HISTORY:
Ovum: 
Larva:
Pupa:
9 days
Adult:  unknown
Broods: one
Hibernation:  Overwintes as  larvaE

Host Plant
Wasatch Beardtongue - Penstemon cyananthus
 
Habitat
Mineral Fork Trail
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