Tawny-edged skipper
The tawny-edged skipper is a small, quick butterfly from North America. Its wings are brown, and the male has a bright orange edge on the front of each forewing. Skippers dart from flower to flower in short, fast hops.
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Fun facts
The caterpillar ties grass leaves together with silk and lives inside like in a little tent.
Males spend most of the day sitting on grass blades, waiting for females.
It spends the winter as a pupa.
In the north it has one family a year, but in the warm deep south it can have two or three.
Most asked questions about Tawny-edged skipper
?How big is the tawny-edged skipper?
Its wings are about 2 to 2.5 centimetres across.
?What does the tawny-edged skipper caterpillar eat?
It eats grasses, such as crabgrass and meadow grass.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Polites themistocles
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Polites themistocles (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 Meganmccarty. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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