Pepper and salt skipper
Amblyscirtes hegon
The pepper and salt skipper is a small butterfly from eastern North America. Skippers are quick little butterflies with thick bodies. It flies in spring and early summer.
Lives in
Eastern North America, from Nova Scotia down to Georgia and Texas
Wingspan
2.5 to 3.1 cm (0.98 to 1.2 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Butterflies cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
The grown-ups sip flower nectar, for example from viburnum and blackberry. The caterpillars eat grasses.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 5 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 13 seconds
How big is Pepper and salt 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)
Pepper and salt skipper about 30 km/h (19 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its open wings are only about 2.5 to 3 centimetres wide.
2
The grown-ups fly from April to July, and there is just one family of new butterflies each year.
3
It is mostly missing from the flat land near the coast.
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Most asked questions about Pepper and salt skipper
?What does the pepper and salt skipper eat?
The butterflies drink flower nectar, and the caterpillars eat grasses.
?Where does the pepper and salt skipper live?
In eastern North America, from Nova Scotia and Maine to Manitoba, Georgia, Florida and Texas.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Amblyscirtes hegon
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Amblyscirtes hegon (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 Charles T. and John R. Bryson, , Bugwood.org. CC BY 3.0 us, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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