Dreamy duskywing
The dreamy duskywing is a small skipper butterfly from the cool forests of North America. Skippers have chunky bodies and dart quickly from place to place. Its caterpillar is so see-through that you can spot its heart.
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Fun facts
Its caterpillar is pale green with lots of white dots.
You can see the caterpillar's heart as a green stripe along the middle of its back.
Adults fly from April to early July.
Usually there is only one family of young a year.
Most asked questions about Dreamy duskywing
?What does the dreamy duskywing eat?
Butterflies drink nectar from flowers like blueberry and lupine. Caterpillars eat willow and poplar leaves.
?How big is the dreamy duskywing?
Its wings measure about 29 to 38 millimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Erynnis icelus
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Aspen dusky wing
Where the facts come from
- Erynnis icelus (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 D. Gordon E. Robertson. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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