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Collectively, these three groups of butterflies share many characteristics, especially in the egg, larval, and pupal stages. [2] Nevertheless, skippers have the antennae clubs hooked backward like a crochet hook , while the typical butterflies have club-like tips to their antennae, and moth-butterflies have feathered or pectinate (comb-shaped ...
Epargyreus clarus, the silver-spotted skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae.It is claimed to be the most recognized skipper in North America. [2] E. clarus occurs in fields, gardens, and at forest edges and ranges from southern Canada throughout most of the United States to northern Mexico, but is absent in the Great Basin and western Texas.
Females lay their eggs singly on the host plant. The pale yellow eggs will soon form an orange-red ring round the middle. [8] The larvae make a nest by rolling up a single blade of grass or by using silk to tie together multiple leaves. The variable larva is grass green with four white pairs of distinct wax glands along the subventral area of ...
Heliopetes ericetorum, the northern white-skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in North America in the United States from eastern Washington south to western Colorado , southern California and Arizona , and in Baja California in north-western Mexico.
Females lay their eggs on the underside of host plant leaves in clusters of two to nine in a row. [2] The egg is yellow but turns tan just before hatching. The larva makes a nest out of leaves, attaching them together with silk. It comes out of its nest at night to feed. [6] The larva is pine green with small yellow spots and has a yellow ...
Atalopedes campestris (called sachem in the United States and Canada) is a small grass skipper butterfly. [2] It has a wingspan of 35–41 mm (1 + 3 ⁄ 8 – 1 + 5 ⁄ 8 in). Male is orange, edged with brown, and has a large brown-black stigma.
Hesperia ottoe, the Ottoe skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in the central U.S. but has been recorded in Canada only in a small area of southern Manitoba. [2] It has been assessed as an endangered species. The Ottoe Skipper is native to mixed-grass prairies. [3] The wingspan is 29–35 mm. The flight period is from ...
Hesperia comma, the silver-spotted skipper or common branded skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is known as silver-spotted skipper in Europe and common branded skipper in North America where the butterfly Epargyreus clarus , a spread-winged skipper , also has the common name of "silver-spotted skipper".