Sleepy duskywing
The sleepy duskywing is a small, dark skipper butterfly from North America. Its front wings are blackish brown with bluish brown spots. It likes oak woods and is often seen at forest edges.
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Fun facts
People often mix it up with two other duskywing butterflies that look very much like it.
Its caterpillar is small and grey-green with a brown head that has an orange spot.
You can see it near roads, train tracks and even towns, as long as there are oak woods nearby.
It has become rare in some places and is protected as threatened in Connecticut and Maine.
Most asked questions about Sleepy duskywing
?What does the sleepy duskywing eat?
The butterfly drinks nectar from flowers like blueberry and dandelion. The caterpillar eats oak leaves.
?Where can you find a sleepy duskywing?
In North America, in oak and pine woods, at forest edges and along roads.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Erynnis brizo
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Banded oak duskywing
Where the facts come from
- Erynnis brizo (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 Cody Hough. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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