Zabulon skipper
The Zabulon skipper is a small butterfly with slim, triangular wings. The male and female look completely different. He is mostly orange with dark brown edges, while she is dark brown with little see-through glassy spots.
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Fun facts
Males perch all day long, watching out for females to fly past.
The caterpillar is brown or green, sometimes with a pinkish glow.
It makes its chrysalis inside a little shelter of leaves.
There are two families each year, one in spring or early summer and one in late summer.
Most asked questions about Zabulon skipper
?How can you tell a male and female Zabulon skipper apart?
The male is mostly orange. The female is dark brown with glassy spots.
?What does the Zabulon skipper caterpillar eat?
Different kinds of grasses.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lon zabulon
- Named by
- Boisduval & Le Conte
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Southern dimorphic skipper
Where the facts come from
- Zabulon 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 Kenneth Dwain Harrelson, aka HaarFager at en.wikipedia. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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