Everes comyntas
Wing span: 7/8 to 1 1/8 inches
buds, flowers,, and seeds of many legumes including, alfalfa, Medicago; bean, Phaseolus; bush clover, Lespedeza; clover, Trifolium; tick trefoil, Desmodium; vetch, Vicia; wild pea, Lathyrus; yellow sweet clover, Melilotus
nectar of: asters, Aster; cinquefoils, Potentilla; white sweet clover, Melilotus; wild strawberry, Fragaria; wintercress, Barbarea
open sunny areas such as disturbed habitats and weedy areas
females lay eggs in flower buds, hibernates as caterpillar, males patrol for females, puddles