Huron skipper
The Huron skipper is a small, fast butterfly. The male is tawny orange with wide dark edges on his wings. The female is darker, with two little see-through spots on each front wing.
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Fun facts
Every late summer and autumn it goes on a journey north, sometimes almost to Canada.
Scientists only decided in 2022 that it is its own species. Before that it was counted as part of a very similar skipper.
Underneath, its wings are yellow brown with faint arrow-shaped patterns.
Most asked questions about Huron skipper
?How big is a Huron skipper?
Its wings measure about 2.5 to 3.8 centimetres from tip to tip.
?Where does the Huron skipper live?
In the southeastern United States, west to Colorado and Arizona, and south all the way to South America.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Atalopedes huron
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Huron sachem
Where the facts come from
- Atalopedes huron (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 Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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