Eufala skipper
The Eufala skipper is a small, quick butterfly from the Americas. It belongs to the skippers, which zip from flower to flower. In summer it spreads far to the north, much further than where it spends the winter.
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Fun facts
Its range stretches all the way from the United States to Patagonia at the bottom of South America.
In warm Florida, Texas and Arizona it has several families all through the year.
One kind of it lives in Chile.
It is also called the rice leaffolder.
Most asked questions about Eufala skipper
?What does the Eufala skipper eat?
Grown-ups sip nectar from flowers, and the caterpillars eat grasses like Bermuda grass and sugar cane.
?How big is the Eufala skipper?
Its wings are about 2.5 to 3.2 centimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lerodea eufala
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Rice leaffolder
Where the facts come from
- Lerodea eufala (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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