Common Name: Lindsey's Skipper
Our populations have been named
as a weakly-distinguished subspecies,
H. lindseyi eldorado. An uncommon butterfly largely restricted to serpentine
grassland, usually in places where there is a big display of Clarkia
blossoms in late spring. This species is often sympatric
with H. colorado, which it strongly resembles, but both colorado
entities (q.v.) in our areea fly later in the year--one of them, much later.
Adults fly low, near the ground,
and often sit on bare ground. They are particularly likely to nectar at large
yellow Composites like Wyethia and Balsamorhiza, but visit many
other flowers too. Flight period May-early July. Larval host plants assumed to
be native perennial
grasses.