Baltimore Checkerspot Caterpillar and Host Plants. Pick out a Baltimore checkerspot caterpillar by making note of its alternating bands of orange and black with rows of branchlike spines.

A bay checkerspot caterpillar is released in the plaintain leaves. The bay checkerspot butterfly, once prevalent throughout Edgewood County Park and Preserve above Redwood City and San Carlos, has ...

The silvery checkerspot caterpillar, Chlosyne nycteis, can be found right now, happily eating away on sunflower, aster, Echinacea, goldenrod and Rudbeckia. The checkerspot caterpillar has branched ...

Silvery checkerspot are half the size of black swallowtails and are orange with black lines, patches and spots. These butterflies fly low and slow sip nectar of plants, and are mostly seen in ...

Volunteers, under the direction of scientist Stuart Weiss, released 400 Bay Checkerspot caterpillars into Edgewood County Park and Natural Preserve in Redwood City on Thursday. The park’s ...

The Taylor's checkerspot butterfly, native to the Pacific Northwest, has lost 99% of its original prairie habitat, ... Hungry Caterpillar' — that’s what they do,” Exum said.