Leonard's skipper
Leonard's skipper is a small, quick butterfly from North America. Skippers are named for their fast, darting flight. It comes out late in summer, when many other butterflies are already gone.
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Fun facts
It has only one family a year, and the grown-ups fly from August to October.
There are three kinds of it. One of them, the Pawnee montane skipper, lives only along one river valley in Colorado.
Its caterpillars munch grasses such as little bluestem and blue grama.
Grown-ups like to sip from thistles, asters, teasel and blazing star flowers.
Most asked questions about Leonard's skipper
?When can you see Leonard's skipper?
From August to October. It is one of the late summer butterflies.
?What does Leonard's skipper eat?
The butterfly drinks flower nectar, and its caterpillars eat grass.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hesperia leonardus
- Named by
- Harris, 1862
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Hesperia leonardus (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 Mike Elson. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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