Oak hairstreak
The oak hairstreak is a small butterfly from the eastern and southern United States. As its name tells you, it belongs with oak trees. Its caterpillars eat nothing but oak.
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Fun facts
It spends the winter as a tiny egg and hatches when spring comes.
Its caterpillars munch on the long dangly flowers of oak trees, called catkins.
It lives from New England all the way down to Florida, and west to Illinois and Colorado.
Most asked questions about Oak hairstreak
?What does the oak hairstreak eat?
Its caterpillars eat oak leaves, buds and catkins. The butterflies drink sweet liquids like other butterflies.
?How big is the oak hairstreak?
Its open wings are about 2 to 4 centimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Satyrium favonius
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lycaenidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Southern hairstreak
Where the facts come from
- Satyrium favonius (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 Jim Conrad. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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