Brown awl
The brown awl is a fast brown skipper butterfly from Asia and Australia. It has the longest and narrowest wings, compared to their width, of all butterflies in India. It flies with a bounding flight, and you can even hear its wings beat.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
It is most active early in the morning or late in the day, in the shade of the jungle.
When it rests, it hangs head down under a leaf.
If you disturb it, it buzzes around and then comes back to the very same spot.
When there are too many caterpillars, they eat all their food plants and the butterflies must migrate to find more.
It can fly low over bushes or up to about 20 metres high in the treetops.
Most asked questions about Brown awl
?What is a skipper butterfly?
A skipper is a butterfly with a thick body that flies in quick, jerky hops. The brown awl is one of them.
?Where does the brown awl live?
In South and Southeast Asia, Japan and Australia, in and around forests.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Badamia exclamationis
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Narrow-winged awl
Where the facts come from
- Badamia exclamationis (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 J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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