This site is dedicated to their fragile beauty. Comma The Comma's caterpillar is light green to brown with darker blotches and many branched spines. They feed on nettles, elms and hops. There are two forms of the Comma, summer and fall. Wings of the fall form are orange in the fall with dark margins and a brown patterned underside.
Adults feed on rotting fruit, tree sap and carrion.
Underside of each hind wing of both sexes has a pair of silvery spots. They are found in open spaces, disturbed ground, open brush, abandoned fields and roads. Caterpillar yellow or green with rows of small black tubercles. They feed on legumes, including sennas and clovers, by night and hide by day in a tent formed of silk and leaves. Both males and females are iridescent blue above and black below.