[4] The Poweshiek skipperling emerges in late June or early July and exists in the adult form for approximately a two-week period.

During this time the skipperling nectars on a suite of flowers, mates and lays eggs.

[4] The Poweshiek skipperling was a common prairie butterfly prior to 2005, but suffered a population crash between 2005 and 2015.

[5] It is threatened by degradation and modification of its native prairie habitat by overgrazing, invasive species, and conversion to cropland.

[7] The Poweshiek skipperling was assessed as threatened by Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) in 2003, then, in 2005, the species was added to Schedule 1 with the status threatened under the Species at Risk Act (SARA), in Canada.