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A Peck's Skipper Moth sitting on a leaf.

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

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

Small yellow butterfly taking minerals from the ground with its large proboscis, Silver-spotted Skipper, Hesperia comma

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

Butterfly on blue flower (Anchusa officinalis) on meadow in summer

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

Macro shot of a golden skipper butterfly nectaring on a cluster of flower.

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

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

Ochlodes sylvanus Large Skipper Butterfly Insect. Digitally Enhanced Photograph.

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

Skippers are a family, the Hesperiidae, of the Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies). Being diurnal, they are generally called butterflies. They were previously placed in a separate superfamily, Hesperioidea; however, the most recent taxonomy places the family in the superfamily Papilionoidea. They are named for their quick, darting flight habits. Most have their antenna tips modified into narrow, hook-like projections. More than 3500 species of skippers are recognized, and they occur worldwide, but with the greatest diversity in the Neotropical regions of Central and South America

Large Skipper butterfly on Oregano flower.

Monarch Butterfly with open wings in a top view as a flying migratory insect butterflies that represents summer and the beauty of nature.

Sandy Grizzled Skipper Butterfly / Latin species name: Pyrgus cinarae

Small Skipper butterfly on purple flower, close-up, on the wing. (Thymelicus sylvestris )

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.

Silver-spotted skipper forages a butterfly shrub.

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

An image of a Large Skipper Butterfly perched on green foliage

Different shapes and colors of butterflies in their natural habitat, which is blackberry grass.

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

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