To find receptive females, males patrol above low plants in river courses, streams, and moist ravines.
Caterpillars live and feed within nests of webbed leaves.
Fully-grown caterpillars hibernate. One brood from June-July. Southeastern Idaho, southern Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. G4 - Apparently secure globally, though it might be quite rare in parts of its range, especially at the periphery. Scott, J. A. 1986.