Hobomok skipper
Lon hobomok
The Hobomok skipper is a small butterfly with slim, triangle-shaped wings. The boy is mostly orange with dark brown edges. Some girls are much darker and have a special name, the Pocahontas form.
Lives in
Northern United States and southern Canada, at woodland edges, clearings and roadsides
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like other skippers, it drinks nectar from flowers.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
Hobomok skipper about 30 km/h (19 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It flies from late spring to the middle of summer.
2
It has only one family each year.
3
Its girls come in two looks: a normal form and a darker Pocahontas form.
you asked
Most asked questions about Hobomok skipper
?Where can you see the Hobomok skipper?
In clearings, woodland edges and along roads in northern North America.
?When does the Hobomok skipper fly?
From late spring to mid-summer.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lon hobomok
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Hobomok skipper (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 D. Gordon E. Robertson. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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