Habitat
The eastern tailed blue is found in shrubby areas, openings in woodlands, old pastures and fields,
roadsides, streamsides, and brushy clearings.
Diet
The eastern tailed blue caterpillar eats
a variety of plants in the Rosaceae or rose family including: wild cherry, wild plum, and chokecherry. The adult feeds on the nectar of
butterfly weed,
dogbane, and sulphur flower.
Life Cycle
The male eastern tailed blue perches on a bush and waits for a female. The female lays one egg at a time on the twigs or in the leaf litter at the base of a host plant.
The caterpillar stays in the leaf litter during the day and feeds at night.
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The eastern tailed blue is found throughout the eastern United States west to North Dakota, Colorado and Texas. it is found in some lower elevations in the west and is also found in southern Canada and in Mexico and Central America. It is found throughout New Hampshire. )
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