Guava skipper
The guava skipper is a butterfly from the warm parts of the Americas. It belongs to the skippers, butterflies with chunky bodies that dart quickly from flower to flower. Its other name is the bloody spot.
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Fun facts
Its caterpillars eat the leaves of guava plants, including the strawberry guava.
Its wings measure 42 to 63 millimetres from tip to tip.
In southern Texas there are several generations in one year.
It lives all the way from Texas, through Mexico and Central America, to Argentina.
Most asked questions about Guava skipper
?What does the guava skipper eat?
Its caterpillars eat guava leaves. The grown-ups probably drink flower nectar.
?Where does the guava skipper live?
From southern Texas through Mexico and Central America to Argentina.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Phocides lilea
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Bloody spot
Where the facts come from
- Phocides polybius (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 from US. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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