Tag: survive

Happy Thanksgiving from the Silvery Checkerspot! See the turkey feathers on the hindwing? Silvery Checkerspots, along with their cousins, the Gorgone and Baltimore Checkerspots, spend winters in Tennessee as partially-grown caterpillars. How do they survive? One way they survive is by wearing little “overcoats.” These “coats” are really special skin, which is both thicker and has…