Southern cloudywing
The southern cloudywing is a dark brown skipper butterfly from North America. It has a row of little glassy white spots on its front wings. It zigzags fast and low over the ground, so it can be tricky to follow.
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Fun facts
Males pick a favourite perch and keep using the same one for their whole grown-up life.
The caterpillar makes a little tent by rolling or tying leaves together with silk.
It spends the winter as a big caterpillar and turns into a butterfly the next year.
The female lays her pale green eggs one at a time under the leaves.
Spring butterflies and summer butterflies look a bit different, which makes them hard to tell apart from their cousins.
Most asked questions about Southern cloudywing
?How big is the southern cloudywing?
Its wingspan is 32 to 38 mm.
?What do southern cloudywing caterpillars eat?
Leaves of plants from the bean family, such as wild beans, lespedeza and tick-trefoil.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cecropterus bathyllus
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Thorybes bathyllus (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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