The adults will feed on nectar from a variety of flowers.
This butterfly can be found in a variety of weedy habitats and is also frequent in urban landscapes.
Females lay eggs singly along the grass blades and caterpillars feed in little shelters made from silking the blades of grass together.
There are three generations in the north from May-November and four or five generations in the south from March-December.
Sachems migrate into Iowa from southern states and reproduce throughout the summer but do not overwinter in the state.
