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.

The larva, or caterpillar, of a Taylor’s checkerspot butterfly. Its distinctive coloration provides a visual warning to potential predators that they harbor toxins. Photo: Momalusk/iNaturalist.

The collaboration between Duotone, Checkerspot, and SWS Board Technology is a powerful example of how cross-industry, international partnerships can overcome traditional barriers to sustainability ...

The Baltimore Checkerspot has primarily fed on native white turtlehead or Chelone glabra, which grows mostly in wetlands. As climate change has caused the weather to become hotter and drier, the ...

E dith’s checkerspot butterflies are found throughout western North America, but they don’t all look or act the same. Dozens of habitat-specific forms or ecotypes of the species have been documented, ...

Taylor's checkerspot butterfly was declared a federally endangered species in 2013 and currently has 11 populations in western Washington, one in British Columbia, and two in Oregon's Willamette ...