Delaware skipper
The Delaware skipper is a bright yellow orange butterfly with black edges on its wings. It belongs to the grass skippers, little quick butterflies with chunky bodies. It likes damp places like marshes, but it also visits gardens.
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Fun facts
The underside of its wings is plain yellow orange, with almost no markings.
Its wing veins are dark brown, like thin lines drawn on the orange.
In warm places it has several families a year, from February to October.
In the north it usually has just one family, in summer.
Most asked questions about Delaware skipper
?What flowers does the Delaware skipper like?
It loves pink and white flowers, such as milkweed, mountain mint and thistles.
?How big is the Delaware skipper?
Its wings are about 2.5 to 4.3 centimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anatrytone logan
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Anatrytone logan (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 Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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