Tiny Checkerspot pollinating a lantana, Historic Villa Roma, Palm Springs, October 2, 2025. More flora and fauna photos: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=dgrimmphd&verifiable=any #Insect #Insects #Nature #Wildlife #Butterfly #Butterflies #Checkerspot #Checkerspots #TinyCheckerspot #PalmSprings

Tiny Checkerspot pollinating a lantana, Historic Villa Roma, Palm Springs, October 2, 2025. More flora and fauna photos: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=dgrimmphd&verifiable=any #Insect #Insects #Nature #Wildlife #Butterfly #Butterflies #Checkerspot #Checkerspots #TinyCheckerspot #PalmSprings

Tiny Checkerspot pollinating a lantana, Historic Villa Roma, Palm Springs, October 2, 2025. More flora and fauna photos: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=dgrimmphd&verifiable=any #Insect #Insects #Nature #Wildlife #Butterfly #Butterflies #Checkerspot #Checkerspots #TinyCheckerspot #PalmSprings

Tiny Checkerspot pollinating a lantana, Historic Villa Roma, Palm Springs, October 2, 2025. More flora and fauna photos: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=dgrimmphd&verifiable=any #Insect #Insects #Nature #Wildlife #Butterfly #Butterflies #Checkerspot #Checkerspots #TinyCheckerspot #PalmSprings

Tiny Checkerspot pollinating a lantana, Historic Villa Roma, Palm Springs, October 2, 2025.

More flora and fauna photos:

www.inaturalist.org/observations...

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#Nature
#Wildlife
#Butterfly
#Butterflies
#Checkerspot
#Checkerspots
#TinyCheckerspot
#PalmSprings

Butterfly with orange and yellow spots with black outlines, on yellow flowers on a gray rock

Flutter by, butterfly 🦋 #butterfly #summer #checkerspot #norcal

A brown butterfly with lots of white and orange spots on its wings rests on a bed of dry vegetation.

While I was at #ZumwaltPrairie, I added my 5000th observation to iNaturalist! This is an Edith's #checkerspot #butterfly (Euphydryas editha), a native North American species widespread west of the Great Plains. #butterflies #Lepidoptera #insects #animals #wildlife #prairie #grasslands #nature

Endangered Gabb's Checkerspot resting, Twin Pines, San Bernardino National Forest, May 25, 2025. More photos of flora and fauna: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=dgrimmphd&verifiable=any #Insect #Insects #Nature #Wildlife #Checkerspot #Checkerspots #GabbsCheckerspot #TwinPines #SanBernardinoNationalForest

Endangered Gabb's Checkerspot resting, Twin Pines, San Bernardino National Forest, May 25, 2025. More photos of flora and fauna: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=dgrimmphd&verifiable=any #Insect #Insects #Nature #Wildlife #Checkerspot #Checkerspots #GabbsCheckerspot #TwinPines #SanBernardinoNationalForest

Endangered Gabb's Checkerspot resting, Twin Pines, San Bernardino National Forest, May 25, 2025. More photos of flora and fauna: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=dgrimmphd&verifiable=any #Insect #Insects #Nature #Wildlife #Checkerspot #Checkerspots #GabbsCheckerspot #TwinPines #SanBernardinoNationalForest

Endangered Gabb's Checkerspot resting, Twin Pines, San Bernardino National Forest, May 25, 2025. More photos of flora and fauna: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=dgrimmphd&verifiable=any #Insect #Insects #Nature #Wildlife #Checkerspot #Checkerspots #GabbsCheckerspot #TwinPines #SanBernardinoNationalForest

Endangered Gabb's Checkerspot resting, Twin Pines, San Bernardino National Forest, May 25, 2025.

More photos of flora and fauna:

www.inaturalist.org/observations...

#Insect
#Insects
#Nature
#Wildlife
#Checkerspot
#Checkerspots
#GabbsCheckerspot
#TwinPines
#SanBernardinoNationalForest

#CheckerSpot
#Invertebrates
In the Kane Valley, BC

The #stickymonkeyflower and the variable #checkerspot #butterfly (#Euphydryas #chalcedona) are at the center of one of the most significant research population biology findings by Dr. Irene Brown and other @stanfordjrbp scientists: https://t.co/ZevyXl2Klo Pics: @alicegcummings

#Flowers are tubular at the base with five broad lobes. Flowers can be white to red, most common color a light orange. They are honey plants #pollinated by #bees & #hummingbirds. Important host plant for the larvae of the variable #checkerspot #butterfly (#Euphydryas #chalcedona)

To read more about the long-term studies of the #Chalcedon (Variable) #checkerspot #butterfly at Jasper Ridge @stanfordjrbp, read Dr. Irene's Brown (1932-2019) that began in 1968: https://t.co/ZevyXl2Klo

The #Chalcedon #checkerspot #butterfly larvae will emerge from eggs and feed/live on host plants like #stickymonkeyflower (#Diplacus #aurantiacus). After moving to a more secluded site, #larvae enter #diapause, emerging between early spring with #pupation in April. #chrysalis

Day 14 of #JRBPvirtualtour! The variable #checkerspot or #Chalcedon #checkerspot (#Euphydryas #chalcedona) is a #butterfly in the family #Nymphalidae. The variable checkerspot is found across western #NorthAmerica, ranging from Alaska to #Mexico.