Butterflies and Moths of the Elfin Forest

Common Name	Scientific Name	Size	Flight	Color	Host/Nectar Plant #
Acmon Blue	Plebejus acmon acmon	1"	5-7	Bl	13 72 120 128 / 72 99
Anise Swallowtail	Papilio zelicaon	3"	3-7	Y/Bk	85 / 165 78 63
Behr’s (Mormon) Metalmark	Apodemia mormo virgulti	1"	5-9	O/Bk	72 / 72
Cabbage White	Pieris rapae	2"	3-10	W	20 153 / 99
Coastal Bramble Hairstreak	Callophrys dumetorum viridis	1"	3-4	G	72 120 /
Common Ringlet	Coenonympha tullia	1.5"	2-9	W	82 83 84 /
Gabb's Checkerspot	Chlosyne gabbii	1.5"	4-7	O	96 112 / 79
Gray Hairstreak	Strymon melinus	1"	5-7	Gr	72 154 125 128 /
Gulf Fritillary	Agraulis vanillae	2.5"	1-12	O	Not present /
Hedgerow Hairstreak	Satyrium saepium	1"	3-7	Br	41 / 150 99 72
Monarch	Danaus plexippus	4.5"	10-2	O	Not present /
Morro Blue	Plebejus icarioides moroensis	1"	5-6	Bl	123 / 120
Orange Sulfur	Colias eurytheme	2"	3-10	Bl	13 118 119 120 /
Pacific Sara Orangetip	Anthocharis sara sara	1.5"	3-4	W/O	20 62 153 /
Pale Swallowtail	Papilio eurymedon	3.5"	4-7	W/Bk	41 154 155 150 /
Silvery Blue	Glaucopsyche lygdamus	1"	3-5	Bl	120 / 120
Variable Checkerspot	Euphydryas chalcedona	2"	4-7	Bk	131 174 / 6 165 78 3 99 63 72
Umber Skipper	Poanes melane	1"	5-10	Br	58 / 6
West Coast Lady	Vanessa annabella	2"	3-6	O/Bk	125 196 197 / 71 72
Western Pygmy Blue	Brephidium exile	0.5"	3-9	Bl	15 16 /
Western Tailed-blue	Everes amyntula	1"	5-6	Bl	13 /
Western Tiger Swallowtail	Papilio rutulus	3.5"	2-8	Y/Bk	144 147 162 / 36 49 50 112

California Oak Moth	Phryganidia californica	0.5"	6-7	Br	152 / none
Ceanothus Silk Moth	Hyalophora euryalus	2.5"	1-7	Br	41 / none
Ctenuchid Moth	Ctenucha species	1"	3-7	Br/R	Grasses & sedges

Key

Size – The size of the front wing, from base to tip, given in inches.

Flight – the months in which a species is "normally" seen flying in the Elfin Forest. Weather can change these dates.

Host / Nectar Plant: Plant ID number of host plant (plant larvae feed on) / ID of nectar plant (plant adults drink from) - see below:

#	Common name
3	Yarrow
6	Seaside fiddleneck
13	Pomona milk-vetch
15	Watson's saltbrush
20	Mustards ●●
36	Italian thistle ●●
41	Buck brush
46	California goosefoot
49	Cobwebby thistle
50	Bull thistle ●●
58	Bermuda grass ●●
62	Yellow tansy mustard
63	Blue dicks
71	Mock heather
72	Dune buckwheat
78	Suffrutescent wallflower
79	California poppy
82	Tall fescue ●
83	California fescue
84	Meadow fescue ●
85	Fennel ●●
96	Telegraph weed

	● = non-native plant
	●● = invasive non-native plant

Color – predominant color(s)
       W = white
       Y = yellow
       O = orange
       G = green
       Gr = gray
       Bl = blue
       Br = brown
       Bk = black.

#	Common name
99	Wedgeleaf horkelia
112	California aster
118	Birdfoot trefoil ●
119	Rush deerweed
120	Deerweed
123	Silver dune lupine
125	Cheeseweed ●
128	White sweet-clover ●
131	Sticky monkey-flower
144	Sycamore
147	Black cottonwood
150	Hollyleaf cherry
152	Coast live oak
153	Wild radish ●
154	California coffeeberry
155	Redberry
162	Arroyo willow
165	Black sage
174	California figwort
196	Stinging nettle
197	Dwarf nettle ●

"The Butterflies of the Estero Bay Area"
MBNEP / California State Park's guide
Good information plus lots of color photographs.