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Ochlodes sylvanus Large Skipper Butterfly Insect. Digitally Enhanced Photograph.

Deudorix epijarbas, the cornelian or hairy line blue, is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly

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.

animalia insecta families Hesperiidae, Papilionidae, Pieridae, Nynphalidae, Lycaenidae and Riodinidae insect butterfly – rhopalocera

Potanthus omaha, commonly known as the lesser dart, is a species of skipper butterflies.

A Contiguous Swift skipper butterfly perches on a blade of grass.

Side view of a perched Skipper Butterfly

$Appearance:\nIt has a rusty orange colour to the wings, upper body and the tips of the antennae. The body is silvery white below and it has a wingspan of 25–30 mm. This butterfly is very similar in appearance to the Essex skipper (Thymelicus lineola). In the small skipper, the undersides of the tips of the antennae are yellow orange, whereas they are black in the Essex skipper. The black area on the lower edge of the upper wings also differs. Like the other orange grass skippers the male has a distinctive black stripe made up of scent scales.\n\nLife cycle and food plants:\nEggs are laid loosely inside grass sheaths of the caterpillars food plants from July to August. The newly hatched caterpillars eat their own eggshell before entering hibernation individually in a protective cocoon of a grass sheath sealed with silk. In the spring the caterpillar begins feeding. The favoured food plant is Yorkshire fog (Holcus lanatus), although other recorded food plants include timothy (Phleum pratense), creeping soft grass (Holcus mollis), false brome (Brachypodium sylvaticum), meadow foxtail (Alopecurus pratensis) and cock's foot (Dactylis glomerata). The caterpillars pupate near the base of the food plant in June with the first adults on the wing at the end of June, a week or two before the first Essex skippers. They are strongly attracted to purple flowers such as thistles and knapweeds.\n\nDistribution:\nThis butterfly's range includes much of Europe (east to the Urals, including Ireland, Britain and Scandinavia, and includes north Africa and the Middle East. It is typically occurring where grass has grown tall.\n\nThis Picture is made during a Long Weekend in the South of Belgium in June 2019.$

Butterfly Onryza maga takeuchii (Matsumura, 1929), Taiwan Yellow-spotted butterfly.

Butterfly - Grass Dart (Ocybadistes walkeri) or Skipper

Polites peckius, the Peck's skipper, is a North American butterfly in the family Hesperiidae, subfamily Hesperiinae.

Thymelicus sylvestris on Sanguisorba minor

A closeup of a whirlabout on green leaves in a field under the sunlight with a blurry background

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

$Lulworth Skipper (Thymelicus acteon) adult at rest on vegetation with wings closed\n\nSicily, Italy May$

The Orange Palm-dart (Cephrenes augiades) normally occurs in the tropical and subtropical rainforests and moist woodlands of Queensland and New South Wales. It is thought to have been introduced to other areas of Australia by nurseries specialising in its host plant: palms. This specimen is perched on an African Lily (Agapanthus africanus). Photographed in Frankston, Victoria.

Isabela Island is the largest and one of the youngest island of the Galapagos.

Selective focus of a skipper butterfly in the garden

Borbo cinnara, commonly known as the swiftlet, Formosan swiftlet or paddy leaf patch, is a butterfly belonging to the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia, Taiwan and Australia.

Fiery Skipper moth (Hylephila phyleus) in Camarillo, California

An Hobomok Skipper butterfly pauses on a leaf in the Canadian boreal forest.

Close up view of the beautiful butterfly Lulworth Skipper (Thymelicus acteon).

Butterfly looking at camera - animal behavior.

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