Juba skipper
The Juba skipper is a little orange-brown butterfly with a big, strong body and bright white spots under its wings. Its thick body makes it look almost like a moth. It is a strong flier that lives high up in the mountains of western North America.
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Fun facts
Skippers have hooked tips on their feelers, not round clubs like most other butterflies.
It has been seen in the mountains more than 3 kilometres above the sea.
Males wait for females low down in little valleys, while their relatives prefer to wait on hilltops.
It flies twice a year, once in spring and once again in autumn.
Its tiny caterpillars start out creamy white with a black head and turn green after eating grass.
Most asked questions about Juba skipper
?What does the Juba skipper eat?
The butterflies drink nectar from flowers and water from mud. The caterpillars eat grass.
?Is a skipper a butterfly or a moth?
It is a butterfly, even though its thick body makes it look a bit like a moth.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hesperia juba
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Yuba skipper, Jagged-border skipper
Where the facts come from
- Hesperia juba (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Walter Siegmund (talk). CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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