Sandhill skipper
The sandhill skipper is a small, quick butterfly from western North America. Skippers have stout bodies and zip from flower to flower. Its caterpillars grow up eating grass, even ordinary lawn grass.
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Fun facts
High up in the mountains it has just one family a year, flying from June to August.
In the warm south and low places it can have several families a year, from March to October.
There are twelve slightly different kinds of it, called subspecies.
People brought it to Hawaii by accident, and it now lives there too.
Most asked questions about Sandhill skipper
?What does the sandhill skipper eat?
The butterfly drinks nectar. Its caterpillars eat grasses like Bermuda grass and Kentucky bluegrass.
?How big is the sandhill skipper?
Its wingspan is about 22 to 32 millimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Polites sabuleti
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- North America, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Saltgrass skipper
Where the facts come from
- Polites sabuleti (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 Katja Schulz from Washington, D. C., USA. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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