Northern cloudywing
The northern cloudywing is a dark brown skipper butterfly. Its wings are plain brown except for a few small, see-through triangle spots. It visits flowers in fields and at the edges of woods.
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Fun facts
The mother lays her eggs one at a time under the leaves.
Before it turns into a chrysalis, the caterpillar rolls itself up inside a leaf.
In the north it has one family a year, but in the south it has two.
It lives from Nova Scotia all the way to California.
Most asked questions about Northern cloudywing
?What does the northern cloudywing eat?
The grown-ups drink nectar from flowers. The caterpillars eat clover and other pea family plants.
?How big is the northern cloudywing?
Its open wings measure about 3.2 to 4.7 cm across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cecropterus pylades
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Thorybes pylades (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 Aarongunnar. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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