Oberthür's grizzled skipper
Oberthür's grizzled skipper is a small, quick butterfly with dark brown wings covered in white spots, like a little chequerboard. Its wings have a white fringe all around the edges. It loves sunny, open places with bare patches of ground.
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Fun facts
It looks so much like its cousins that sometimes only an expert with a microscope can tell them apart.
It looks for bare spots of ground to sunbathe on.
The female lays her eggs one by one on the underside of leaves in full sun.
In warm years there can be two or even three families of it in one summer.
Its eggs are yellowish and round, with strong ridges running down them.
Most asked questions about Oberthür's grizzled skipper
?What does Oberthür's grizzled skipper eat?
The butterflies drink nectar from flowers, and the caterpillars eat cinquefoil and wild strawberry.
?Where does Oberthür's grizzled skipper live?
In north-west Africa, Europe up to southern Scandinavia, and east to Iran. It does not live in Britain.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pyrgus armoricanus
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- Africa, Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Oberthür's grizzled 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 Charlie Jackson. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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