Dun skipper
The dun skipper is a plain brown, medium sized skipper butterfly. It has golden hairs on its head. The male has a black patch on each front wing, and the female has two light spots instead.
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Fun facts
Its eggs are pale green domes. Later they get red spots on top and a red band around the middle.
The mother lays her eggs one at a time on the middle of a sedge leaf.
When a baby caterpillar hatches, it eats most of its own eggshell.
It likes damp places, such as swamps and wet meadows.
Most asked questions about Dun skipper
?What does the dun skipper look like?
It is a plain brown butterfly with golden hairs on its head.
?What do dun skipper caterpillars eat?
They eat sedges, grassy plants from damp places.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Euphyes vestris
- Named by
- Boisduval, 1852
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Euphyes vestris (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 Charles T. and John R. Bryson, , Bugwood.org. CC BY 3.0 us, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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