OVERVIEW: The Dion Skipper is generally found in open to shrubby sedge wetlands and occasionally in openings in red maple swamps. Subspecies dion occurs in the northern part of the range and is generally found on calcareous soils associated with large sedges like Carex lacustris. Coastal plain and southeastern populations (mostly subspecies alabamae) are found in a great variety of sedge situations from swales in wet pine barrens (especially in southern New Jersey), to bogs, roadside ditches and is a very good colonizer (NatureServe 2005). 

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