The flight period of Question Marks, as with all butterflies, varies with region and shifts from year to year. Winter-form Question Marks appear in late August and spend the winter in various shelters.
The summer form of the Question Mark emerges and normally flies from June to early August in the north they lay eggs that develop into the winter form. There is also a definite northward migration in the spring, although it is less dramatic. Although some Question Marks overwinter in the North, depending on the severity of the winter, many migrate south in the fall. The Question Marks' range includes all of the eastern US, except for the Florida peninsula. This butterfly occurs from the Maritime Provinces west to the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It can survive in a variety of habitats, including deciduous woods with some open space, glades, city parks, orchards, edges and stream sides. In terms of ecology, the Question Mark is a generalist. Adults reportedly live for six to twenty days.
Only when these are unavailable will Question Marks visit flowers for nectar. Īdult Question Marks consume tree sap, rotting fruit, dung, or dead animals. They may have four rows of orange spines behind the head. Caterpillars are spiny and variable in color. Host plants include nettles, false nettle, Japanese hop, American elm, and hackberry. The light green eggs are keg-shaped and ribbed. Females lay their eggs at singly or stacked under leaves of plants that are usually not the hosts. Male Question Marks find females by perching on leaves or tree trunks in the afternoon. The Question Mark is also somewhat larger: its average wing span is 2.5 inches. The Question Mark's flight is robust, with slower wing flaps than those of the similar Eastern Comma.
One of the identifying characteristics is that this butterfly is the only anglewing with a small black horizontal bar on the fore wing. The underside is light brown, with a silvery white mark in the shape of a question mark in the center of the hindwing. From below, this butterfly is light gray-brown and relatively unmarked. Question Mark at John Brown Farm (9 June 2019).įrom above, the Question Mark is orange or reddish orange with dark spots. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.Butterflies of the Adirondacks: The underside of the hingwing has a silver mark in the shape of a question mark. Type Other for sentence and MidNum for word breaks. In text U+037E behaves as Infix Numeric regarding line breaks. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 2 other glyphs. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. The glyph is a Canonical composition of the glyphs. The character is also known as erotimatiko. This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. It belongs to the block Greek and Coptic in the Basic Multilingual Plane. U+037E was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993).
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