Bug card No. 3097 of 4,939

Ocola skipper

Panoquina ocola

The ocola skipper is a small brown butterfly with long wings. Skippers zip quickly from flower to flower. It lives in warm parts of America.

Lives in

Warm parts of America, from Paraguay north to Texas and the Caribbean islands

Wingspan

3.5 to 4.3 cm (1.4 to 1.7 in)

Top speed

about 36 km/h (22 mph)

Can it hurt you?

Harmless

Harmless. It does not bite or sting.

What does it eat?

The grown-ups drink nectar from flowers. The caterpillars eat grasses such as rice and sugar cane.

How big is it?

wings as wide as 7 grains of rice in a rowcould fly across a whole football pitch in 10 seconds

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A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)

A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)

Ocola skipper about 36 km/h (22 mph)

A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)

cool stuff

Sometimes it wanders very far north, all the way to Canada and New York.

Its caterpillars eat rice and sugar cane plants.

Another name for it is the long-winged skipper.

you asked

?Where does the ocola skipper live?

It lives in warm parts of America, from South America to the southern United States.

?How big is the ocola skipper?

Its open wings are about 3.5 to 4.3 cm across.

Panoquina ocola (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 Charles T. and John R. Bryson, Bugwood.org. CC BY 3.0 us, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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