Cedar Creek
Natural History Area
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Insects of Cedar Creek
Order LEPIDOPTERA
Family SATYRIDAE
(Wood Nymphs/Satyrs)
Satyr and Wood Nymph larvae (50 NA spp; 10 MN spp) feed on grasses or sedges.
The Inornate Ringlet,
Coenonympha
tullia-inornata is the most commonly encountered Wood
Nymph. It is common in most CCNHA old fields in mid-summer. Other routinely
encountered species at wood's edge include the Wood Nymph, Cercyonis
pegala; the Little Wood Satyr,
Megisto
(=Euptychia) cymela; and in marshy meadows, the Eyed-Brown,
Satyrodes(=Lethe)
eurydice.
Two wood nymphs found in forest are the uncommon
Satyrodes
appalachia and the rather common Enodia
anthedon.
**Two species found in northern Minnesota but not likely to occur this
far south are Oeneis jutta
and Erebia discoidalis.