Zabulon skipper (Poanes zabulon). Brown-purple butterflies with yellow markings, zabulons make two broods May-September. After caterpillars emerge from their shelters of silk-tied leaves ...

Lapp's attention suddenly shifts, locking onto the movements of another skipper. He tracks it into a thicket, where he motions us to approach. A Zabulon skipper, richly colored in chestnut and ...

reports that species that are used to subtropical and warm climates, such as the giant swallowtail and zabulon skipper, were rare or absent in Massachusetts in the late 1980s. But now these ...

Subtropical and warm-climate butterflies—including the giant swallowtail (photo above) and the zabulon skipper (photo below)—showed the sharpest population shift to the north. As recently as ...

A Zabulon skipper butterfly. (Courtesy David Ennis/Mass Audubon) Insects and other invertebrates serve critical functions in many of the world’s ecosystems — famed Harvard entomologist E.O. Wi ...

Subtropical and warm-climate species such as the giant swallowtail and zabulon skipper -- many of which were rare or absent in Massachusetts as recently as the late 1980s -- show the sharpest ...

Spicebush swallowtail. Silver-spotted skipper. Wild indigo duskywing. Eastern tiger swallowtail. Zabulon skipper. In fact, they were among the species of butterflies that could have fluttered past ...

Elliot’s Lovegrass is a perennial that grows two feet tall and is a host plant for the Zabulon Skipper and provides seeds for birds. The Purple Love grass is a slightly smaller-growing ...

Subtropical and warm-climate species such as the giant swallowtail and zabulon skipper—many of which were rare or absent in Massachusetts as recently as the late 1980s—show the sharpest ...