Oriental straight swift
The oriental straight swift is a small dark brown skipper butterfly with a few tiny white dots on its wings. Skippers have chunky bodies and dart from flower to flower very fast. Its caterpillars like to eat grassy plants, even rice and sugarcane.
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Fun facts
Its wings are only about 3 centimetres across from tip to tip.
The girls have bigger white spots than the boys.
All the plants its caterpillars eat, like rice, sugarcane and bamboo, are kinds of grass.
Most asked questions about Oriental straight swift
?What does the oriental straight swift eat?
The butterfly drinks nectar. Its caterpillars eat grasses like rice, sugarcane and bamboo.
?How big is the oriental straight swift?
Its wingspan is about 30 millimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Parnara bada
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- African straight swift, Grey swift, Ceylon swift
Where the facts come from
- Parnara bada (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 Jeevan Jose, Kerala, India. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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