Tommie, I think you are confusing Silver-spotted Skipper with Silvery
Checkerspot, which does use the plants you mention as host plants.
Silver-spotted Skippers use Black Locust, Kudzu and Tick Trefoil as host plants
in our area.
Speaking of Silver-spotted Skippers, we counted 1,528 on the Williamsburg,
Kentucky count on July 16.
Bill Haley, Chattanooga
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I have about 50 caterpillars every time I see a pair of Silver Spotted Skippers
hanging around my flowers. The chrysalides are already eclosing from the last
pair which visited. This year the caterpillars used three different host
plants. I don't know the names of two of them. Coneflowers are their favorite
host plant. I have a fuzzy leafed black-eyed susan. I don't know the name of
it. It came from a wildflower package of seeds. They like it now, also. They
refuse to eat the Black-eyed Susan with the smooth leaves.
Tommie Rogers
Marion county
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Silver-spotted skippers were noticeably abundant in upper-east Tennessee in
early August. More numerous than Pipevine Swallowtails at most sites I visited
Aug. 1 - 4.
Richard Connors
Nashville
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Is anyone else seeing mass quantities of Silver-spotted Skippers? I just did a
quick count on the Lantana growing around my house and came up with 50+.
Ken Childs
Beech Bluff, TN
Madison County
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