Wide-brand grass-dart
The wide-brand grass-dart is a small butterfly from a group called skippers. Its wings measure only about 2.5 centimetres from tip to tip. Its caterpillars grow up on grasses.
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Fun facts
Its caterpillar builds itself a little hideout by tying grass blades together with silk, and rests inside.
One kind of it that lives in northern Australia has its own name, the orange dart.
Skippers like it fly in quick, short dashes, and that is how they got their name.
Most asked questions about Wide-brand grass-dart
?How big is the wide-brand grass-dart?
Small. Its open wings are about 2.5 centimetres across.
?What does the wide-brand grass-dart caterpillar eat?
Grasses. It also hides between grass blades that it ties together with silk.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Suniana sunias
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Suniana sunias (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 Graham Winterflood. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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