Butterflies & Skippers of Ottawa County

As I have ventured into setting aside landscape for the benefit of native insects, I wanted to know what species were specific for my county so that I could assess and provide more for them while also seeking to document any species not included in this 1992 survey, especially since it was conducted 30+ years ago.

The Biological Survey is available at the Oak Harbor Public Library, or you can purchase it directly from them HERE

If I find a more recent study for butterfly/skipper species per Ohio county, I will update the list, or if you have information, please email me!

I will document butterfly and skipper species spotted.

Loose Data from Butterflies and Skippers of Ohio; specifically, Ottawa County accounted for species. Biological Survey 1992 ISSN: 0078-3994

FAMILY: Hesperiidae Latreille – True Skippers

Polites themistocles Tawny-edged Skipper

Wikipedia photo and info

Host plants of the tawny-edged skipper include:

Slender crabgrass (Digitaria filiformis)
Panicum microcarpum
Smooth meadow-grass (Poa pratensis)

Epargyreus clarus Silver-Spotted Skipper

Pholisora catullus Common Sooty Wing

Ancyloxypha numitor Least Skipper

Thymelicus lineola European Skipper

Polites coras Peck’s Skipper

Wallengrenia egeremet Northern Broken Dash

Atrytone logan logan Delaware Skipper

Poanes hobomok Hobomok skipper

Euphyes vestris metacomet Dun Skipper

Pyrgus communis Checkered Skipper

Polites origenes Cross Line Skipper

Crossline Skipper Polites origenes (Fabricius, 1793) | Butterflies and Moths of North America

Thorybes pylades Northern Cloudy Wing

Wikipedia photo and info
Adults lay eggs singly under the leaves of their host plants. The caterpillars then will eat till they are ready to pupate at which point they will roll themselves into the host plants’ leaves. They fly between May and July where there is only one brood, but in the south they fly from March and September where there are two broods.