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

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

Also known as Trapezites Symmomus Rush-skipper and Splendid Ochre, perched on white flowers

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

A Peck's Skipper Moth sitting on a leaf.

Ochlodes sylvanus Large Skipper Butterfly Insect. Digitally Enhanced Photograph.

A closeup of the Delaware skipper on a plant.

Large Skipper butterfly on Oregano flower.

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

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

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

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

Hobomok Skipper butterfly (Poanes hobomok) in grass

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

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.

European skipper butterfly on a pink flower.

Silver-spotted skipper forages a butterfly shrub.

Butterfly closeup on green leaf. Insect macro photography.

Also known as Trapezites Symmomus Rush-skipper and Splendid Ochre, perched on a leaf

Zabulon skipper butterfly isolated on a green leaf during summer

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

Large skipper butterfly on viper's-bugloss flower in a nature reserve. Stukeley Meadows Nature Reserve Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.

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

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