Little glassywing
The little glassywing is a small skipper, a kind of butterfly with a chunky body that darts quickly from flower to flower. It lives in the eastern United States and southeastern Canada. It is picky about flower colours and likes white, pink and purple ones best.
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Fun facts
Its favourite flowers include milkweed, peppermint and self-heal.
Its wings are about 3 to 4 centimetres across.
It belongs to the skipper family, butterflies known for their quick, darting flight.
Most asked questions about Little glassywing
?What flowers does the little glassywing like?
White, pink and purple flowers, such as milkweed, peppermint and self-heal.
?Where does the little glassywing live?
In the eastern United States and southeastern Canada.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Vernia verna
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Vernia verna (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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