White checkered-skipper
Burnsius albezens
The white checkered-skipper is a small butterfly with a checkerboard pattern of black and white. Skippers are quick, darting butterflies. It lives in dry, open, sunny places.
Lives in
The southern United States, from California to Florida, and Mexico
Wingspan
2.5 to 3.8 cm (0.98 to 1.5 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
The grown-ups drink nectar from many kinds of flowers. The caterpillars probably eat mallow plants.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 6 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 11 seconds
How big is White checkered-skipper 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)
White checkered-skipper about 34 km/h (21 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its wings are about 2.5 to 4 centimetres from tip to tip.
2
In most places it flies all year round.
3
It used to have a slightly different scientific name, albescens.
you asked
Most asked questions about White checkered-skipper
?Where does the white checkered-skipper live?
In dry, open places in the southern United States and Mexico.
?What does the white checkered-skipper eat?
The butterflies drink nectar, and the caterpillars probably eat mallows.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Burnsius albezens
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Burnsius albezens (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 Anne Toal. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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