Tag: life cycle

  • The Successful Sachem

    The Successful Sachem

    I was meandering about in the yard when I spied a female Sachem laying an egg on white clover (Trifolium repens L.). Sachems are skippers, but for some reason we leave off the “skipper” part of the common name; it’s just “Sachem.” Female Sachems have a backwards chevron on their hindwings when see from below.…