northern cloudywing

Open or scrubby boreal forest and forest openings and edges

One brood from late May to mid-July

Legumes (Fabaceae)

Nectar from blue, purple, pink, or white flowers, but not yellow flowers.

Sources

7, 21, 27, 29, 30, 71, 75, 82, 83.

Biodiversity occurrence data published by: Minnesota Biodiversity Atlas (accessed through the Minnesota Biodiversity Atlas Portal, bellatlas.umn.edu, 7/12/2025).

Skippers have traditionally been placed in their own superfamily Hesperioidea because of their morphological similarity. Recent phylogenetic analysis (Kawahara and Breinholt [2014]) suggests that they share the same common ancestor as other butterfly families, and thus belong in the superfamily, Papilionoidea.

Northern Cloudywing Skipper
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Cloudywing Skippers
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