Tropical checkered-skipper
The tropical checkered-skipper is a small, quick butterfly with a chequered pattern on its wings. Skippers zip from flower to flower in short, fast hops. It lives in warm places from Florida and Texas down to Costa Rica.
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Fun facts
In Florida and southern Texas there are four to five families of these butterflies every year.
In 2019 scientists moved it into a new group, Burnsius. Before that it was called Pyrgus oileus.
Its caterpillars eat plants of the mallow family, including hollyhock.
Most asked questions about Tropical checkered-skipper
?What does the tropical checkered-skipper eat?
Grown-ups drink nectar, and the caterpillars eat mallow plants like hollyhock.
?Where does the tropical checkered-skipper live?
From Florida and Texas through Mexico and Central America to Costa Rica, and on Caribbean islands.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Burnsius oileus
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Tropical checkered skipper
Where the facts come from
- Burnsius oileus (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 J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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