Long dash
Limochores mystic
The long dash is a small orange and brown skipper, a butterfly with a chunky body. Underneath, its back wings have a curved row of yellow spots that are all the same size. It lives in grassy meadows and marshes.
Lives in
Northern North America and mountains further south, in meadows, marshes and along streams
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It is a small butterfly that does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Not much is written about its food. Like other butterflies, its caterpillars most likely eat plants.
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)
Long dash about 30 km/h (19 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
The male has a long, slightly curved dark mark on each front wing.
2
The female has a wide black patch near the base of each front wing.
3
It lives in all sorts of grassy places, like meadows, marshes, stream banks and the edges of woods.
you asked
Most asked questions about Long dash
?Where does the long dash live?
In the north of North America, and in mountains further south, in grassy places.
?What does the long dash look like?
It is dark brown with orange markings on top, and orange brown with yellow spots underneath.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Limochores mystic
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Long dash skipper
Where the facts come from
- Limochores mystic (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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