Common straight swift
Parnara guttata
The common straight swift is a small brown skipper butterfly. Skippers are fast, darting flyers with thick bodies. Its caterpillars eat grasses, including rice.
Lives in
Tropical Asia, eastern China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines and the Russian Far East
Wingspan
4 cm (1.6 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat grasses, including rice plants.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 7 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 11 seconds
How big is Common straight swift compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
Common straight swift about 35 km/h (22 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its wings are about 4 centimetres from tip to tip.
2
It lives as far north as the Amur region in Russia.
3
Because its caterpillars eat rice, farmers in Asia know it well.
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Most asked questions about Common straight swift
?What does the common straight swift eat?
Its caterpillars eat grasses, including rice.
?Where does the common straight swift live?
In East and Southeast Asia, from Russia and Japan to the Philippines.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Parnara guttata
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Parnara guttata (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 kumon from unknown. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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