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European skipper, Thymelicus lineola, on milkweed flowers at the Belding Wildlife Management Area in Vernon, Connecticut.
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Lulworth Skipper (Thymelicus acteon) adult at rest on vegetation with wings closed\n\nSicily, Italy May
A single Signata Skipper Butterfly (Hylephila signata) drinking nectar from a white flower of the Tevo shrub (Retanilla trinervia) in the Andes mountains of central Chile, clearly showing its long, angled proboscis
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Perched on a leaf, a roadside skipper butterfly suns himself in the morning sun in Deer Creek Canyon, Littleton, Colorado.
white butterfly on the plants
An Hobomok Skipper butterfly pauses on a leaf in the Canadian boreal forest.
Closeup butterfly on flower (Common tiger butterfly)
Large skipper butterfly on dry grass stems.
small colorful butterfly feeding and pollinating the flower
An adult Fasciolata Skipper (Hylephila fasciolata) alights and feeds on a yellow dandelion flowerson a farm in Melipilla, central Chile.
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Butterfly on grass.
Eogenes alcides on flower
A skipper butterfly on a leaf in the tropical rainforest of Bali, Indonesia.
Ochlodes sylvanus
An image of a Large Skipper Butterfly perched on green foliage
Woodland Skipper
About the size of a fingernail, a tiny, Western pygmy blue butterfly enjoys Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge in Denver, Colorado.
A beautiful little thick-headed butterfly on a wildflower.
Woodland skipper butterfly, Ochlodes sylvanoides. Oregon Caves National Monument, Oregon, USA.
A close up picture of a brown skipper butterfly sitting on a small white flower with its wings spread to show the underside.
A least skipper butterfly pauses on a leaf in the Canadian boreal forest.
A bronze flat butterfly feeding on everlasting daisies.
Large Skipper butterfly on Oregano flower.
A Woodland Skipper Butterfly in the garden on Oregano flowers
The Essex skipper (Thymelicus lineola) is a butterfly in family Hesperiidae. In North America, it is known as the European skipper.\n\nWith a wingspan of 2.5 to 2.9 cm, it is very similar in appearance to the small skipper Thymelicus sylvestris. They can be told apart by the undersides of the tips of their antennae: the Essex skipper's antennae are black, whereas those of the small skipper are orange. This butterfly occurs throughout much of the Palaearctic region. Its range is from southern Scandinavia through Europe to North Africa and east to Central Asia It was only identified in the UK in 1889, and its range is expanding both in England and in northern Europe. In North America, this butterfly was accidentally introduced in 1910 via London, Ontario and has spread across southern Canada and into several northern US states.\nLife cycle:\nEggs are laid in strings on the stems of grasses where they remain over the winter. The Essex skipper's favoured foodplant is cock's-foot (Dactylis glomerata), and it rarely uses the small skipper's favoured foodplant Yorkshire fog. Essex skippers' other foods include creeping soft grass (Holcus mollis), couch grass (Elymus repens), timothy-grass (Phleum pratense), meadow foxtail (Alopecurus pratensis), false brome (Brachypodium sylvaticum) and tor-grass (Brachypodium pinnatum). This skipper's caterpillars emerge in the spring and feed until June before forming shelters from leaves tied with silk at the base of the foodplant to pupate. Adults fly from July through August. Like most skippers, they are fairly strictly diurnal, though individuals are very rarely encountered during the night (source Wikipedia).\n\nThis is a quite common species in the described Habitats in the Netherlands.
Vesuria (Wallengrenia otho vesuria)adult feeding on flower\
Pearl crescent butterfly on black-eyed Susan flower up close, summer
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