Pollinator
American snout
Libytheana carinenta
An odd little butterfly with a long snout, famous for mass flights.
- Family
- Nymphalidae (snouts)
- Wingspan
- 1.4 to 2 in (3.5 to 5.1 cm)
- Flight season
- Much of the year in the South
- Range
- Southern United States, wandering north
- Caterpillar food
- Hackberry (Celtis)
- Conservation
- Secure and widespread
The American snout is unmistakable: its elongated mouthparts jut forward like a snout, and at rest, wings closed, it mimics a dead leaf complete with a stalk.
In the South it is famous for extraordinary mass migrations, when millions can fill the sky after rains break a drought.
Caterpillars feed only on hackberry trees; the adults nectar widely at open flowers, and the plants below carry documented snout records.
Plants for the american snout
39 native plants with documented flower-visit records. Narrow with the filters below.
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No plants match those filters.
Sources
- Butterflies and Moths of North America ↗
- iNaturalist ↗
- Plant associations from GloBI flower-visit records and NPIN larval-host data. Butterfly photographs via iNaturalist (CC BY).