Woodland Skipper Butterfly - Ochlodes sylvanoides

Woodland Skipper Butterfly - Ochlodes sylvanoides
Hesperiidae (Skippers) » Hesperiinae (Grass Skippers) » Ochlodes » Ochlodes sylvanoides (Woodland Skipper)
Live adult skipper butterflies photgraphed at Sanders County Montana USA.

Photos ©Lynette Schimming used with permission. Please select a thumbnail for larger image.




	Grass skippers (subfamily Hesperiinae) are usually small orange and brown butterflies. Adults rest with wings closed or bask with hindwings open flat and forewings at an angle (the "jet plane" position), a posture unique to grass skippers. They are fast, agile, erratic fliers. Larvae feed on grasses.

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