Males patrol for females in open areas during warm hours.
Females lay eggs on or near the host plants.
One brood from late May to mid-July. Open bogs, taiga, tundra, edges of open black spruce bogs, pine forests. G5 - Demonstrably secure globally, though it may be quite rare in parts of its range, especially at the periphery. Opler, P. A. and G. O. Krizek. Butterflies east of the Great Plains.