American branded skipper
The American branded skipper is a small, quick butterfly from North America. Skippers have chunky bodies and dart from flower to flower. It lives in cool northern places and high up in the mountains.
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Fun facts
Its wings measure 22 to 30 millimetres from tip to tip.
In the west it flies from late June to mid-August, and in the east from late July to early September.
It has 12 subspecies with their own names, like the Mojave branded skipper and the Oregon branded skipper.
Most asked questions about American branded skipper
?Where does the American branded skipper live?
In North America, in the cool north and in mountains as far south as Colorado.
?What do its caterpillars eat?
Grasses, such as needle grasses and ryegrass.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hesperia colorado
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Hesperia colorado (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 xpda. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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