Silver spotted Skippers are reported to favor purple, pink, red and blue flowers, only sometimes visit white or cream colored flowers and seem to entirely avoid feeding from yellow blooms. This particular skipper was observed today favoring pink and purple blooms in the Flight Encounter. When not feeding, these butterflies are often found perched on the undersides of leaves especially at night and on cloudy days.
They host on a number of legumes including Indigobush (Amorpha fruticosa), American hogpeanut (Amphicarpaea bracteata), Butterfly pea (Clitoria mariana), Groundnut (Apios americana), American wisteria (Wisteria frutescens) and non-natives Dixie ticktrefoil (Desmodium tortuosum), Kudzu (Pueraria montana), Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia), Chinese wisteria (Wisteria sinensis).
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