"Often common in south, less so northward. In Texas and Arizona, massive flights of huge numbers are legendary but unpredictable. Visits flowers as well as sap and mud. Snouts are masters of deception in flight, bouncing like satyrs one moment, gliding like checkerspots the next. Flies all year in south, spring to fall northward (2-3 broods). Head with long snoutlike palpi, forewing tips extended and squared off. Above brown with orange basally and white forewing spots. Quite variable below; hindwing can be plain or mottled gray. Southeastern population sometimes considered a separate species. Larval foodplant: Hackberries" (Kaufman's Butterflies of North America).