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A closeup of the Delaware skipper on a plant.
feeding on daisy nectar.
animalia insecta families Hesperiidae, Papilionidae, Pieridae, Nynphalidae, Lycaenidae and Riodinidae insect butterfly – rhopalocera
Ochlodes sylvanus Large Skipper Butterfly Insect. Digitally Enhanced Photograph.
Hesperiidae stopping to summer grass.
Butterfly looking at camera - animal behavior.
Parnara guttata
Potanthus omaha, commonly known as the lesser dart, is a species of skipper butterflies.
Thymelicus sylvestris on Sanguisorba minor
A Contiguous Swift skipper butterfly perches on a blade of grass.
brown and yellow moth perched on a tree with morning dew glistening off of its wings
An Hobomok Skipper butterfly pauses on a leaf in the Canadian boreal forest.
Pelopidas mathias or the dark small branded swift is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae
Appearance:\nIt has a rusty orange colour to the wings, upper body and the tips of the antennae. The body is silvery white below and it has a wingspan of 25–30 mm. This butterfly is very similar in appearance to the Essex skipper (Thymelicus lineola). In the small skipper, the undersides of the tips of the antennae are yellow orange, whereas they are black in the Essex skipper. The black area on the lower edge of the upper wings also differs. Like the other orange grass skippers the male has a distinctive black stripe made up of scent scales.\n\nLife cycle and food plants:\nEggs are laid loosely inside grass sheaths of the caterpillars food plants from July to August. The newly hatched caterpillars eat their own eggshell before entering hibernation individually in a protective cocoon of a grass sheath sealed with silk. In the spring the caterpillar begins feeding. The favoured food plant is Yorkshire fog (Holcus lanatus), although other recorded food plants include timothy (Phleum pratense), creeping soft grass (Holcus mollis), false brome (Brachypodium sylvaticum), meadow foxtail (Alopecurus pratensis) and cock's foot (Dactylis glomerata). The caterpillars pupate near the base of the food plant in June with the first adults on the wing at the end of June, a week or two before the first Essex skippers. They are strongly attracted to purple flowers such as thistles and knapweeds.\n\nDistribution:\nThis butterfly's range includes much of Europe (east to the Urals, including Ireland, Britain and Scandinavia, and includes north Africa and the Middle East. It is typically occurring where grass has grown tall.\n\nThis Picture is made during a Long Weekend in the South of Belgium in June 2019.
Closeup view of an insect Borbo cinnara on a leaf
Moth on green leaf - animal behavior.
butterfly, seseri butterfly, concrete, shade, brown, okinawa
Potanthus omaha, commonly known as the lesser dart, is a species of skipper butterflies.
Close-up of a Hensel butterfly resting on a leaf
Sunning himself, a tiny Western branded skipper butterfly about the size of a fingernail perches on a leaf in Reynolds Park in Jefferson County, Colorado.
Insect
A Peck's Skipper Moth sitting on a leaf.
the brick butterfly insect, the nature concept image
Side view of silver-spotted skipper (Epargyreus clarus -- a butterfly) on purple vervain, extending its proboscis into a blossom. In a Connecticut garden, summer.
European skipper, Thymelicus lineola, on milkweed flowers at the Belding Wildlife Management Area in Vernon, Connecticut.
Polites peckius, the Peck's skipper, is a North American butterfly in the family Hesperiidae, subfamily Hesperiinae.
Sachem Skipper Butterfly on a Milkweed Flower
Butterfly on grass.
Delaware skipper (Anatrytone logan) on red clover (Trifolium pratense) flower in summer.
Butterfly drinking flower juice using proboscis - animal behavior.
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