Zarucco duskywing
Erynnis zarucco
The Zarucco duskywing is a dark skipper butterfly from North America. Skippers are small, quick butterflies with chunky bodies. It is rare and lives mostly in the warm southeast of the United States.
Lives in
Southeastern United States, and rarely as far north as southern Ontario
Wingspan
3.2 to 3.8 cm (1.3 to 1.5 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
The butterfly sips nectar from flowers. Its caterpillar eats trees and smaller plants of the pea family.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 6 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 11 seconds
How big is Zarucco duskywing compared to YOU?
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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)
Zarucco duskywing about 34 km/h (21 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
With open wings it is about 3.2 to 3.8 centimetres across.
2
In the warm deep south there are three families of young in a year, but in the north only two.
3
It is rarely seen, even though it lives in a big area.
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Most asked questions about Zarucco duskywing
?Where does the Zarucco duskywing live?
Mostly in the southeastern United States, and rarely as far north as southern Ontario in Canada.
?What does the Zarucco duskywing caterpillar eat?
Trees and smaller plants of the pea family.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Erynnis zarucco
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Erynnis zarucco (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 gailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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