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Large skipper butterfly on grass in a nature reserve. Stukeley Meadows Nature Reserve Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.

A closeup of the Delaware skipper on a plant.

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

A Peck's Skipper Moth sitting on a leaf.

A small skipper butterfly perching on grass and looking up at the camera.

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

Parnara guttata Bremeret Grey, Rice skipper butterfly, A butterfly is on the flower

Large Skipper butterfly on Oregano flower.

A macro image grass skipper butterfly (Hesperiinae).

Delaware skipper (Anatrytone logan) on red clover (Trifolium pratense) flower in summer.

Ochlodes sylvanus Large Skipper Butterfly Insect. Digitally Enhanced Photograph.

Close up of orange moth or orange butterfly feeding on the pollen from a pink wildflower in rural England

A least skipper butterfly pauses on a leaf in the Canadian boreal forest.

a macro photo of potanthus niobe a kind of skipper butterfly that are endemic in the Philippines

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

European skipper butterfly on a pink flower.

Found in Britain and Ireland but becoming increasingly rare. Grey-brown wings with mottled brown markings and two rows of small white spots. A small butterfly with low, darting flight. Grizzled Skipper is similar in size but has brighter black and white markings.

Gegenes nostrodamus Dingy Swift Butterfly

A grass skipper on a butterfly bush getting a little something to eat.

Hobomok Skipper butterfly (Poanes hobomok) in grass

Close-up of a rusty skipper butterfly (Ochlodes sylvanoides) sitting on a branch in nature

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

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