Yellow-banded dart
Ocybadistes walkeri
The yellow-banded dart is a small skipper butterfly from Australia. Skippers are quick and darty, zipping from plant to plant. Its caterpillars live on grasses, even lawn grass.
Lives in
Eastern and southern Australia and the Northern Territory
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Grown-up butterflies sip nectar from flowers. The caterpillars eat grasses like couch grass and kikuyu, and also flax lilies.
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)
Yellow-banded dart about 30 km/h (19 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It has many names, like greenish grass-dart, green grass-dart and southern dart.
2
There are three slightly different kinds in different parts of Australia.
3
Its caterpillars eat common grasses, so it can live in gardens and parks.
you asked
Most asked questions about Yellow-banded dart
?What does the yellow-banded dart caterpillar eat?
Grasses like couch grass, kikuyu and Guinea grass, and flax lilies.
?Where does the yellow-banded dart live?
In eastern and southern Australia, including Tasmania, and in the Northern Territory.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Ocybadistes walkeri
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Greenish grass-dart, Green grass-dart, Southern dart
Where the facts come from
- Ocybadistes walkeri (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 Morflite. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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