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Scientific Name: Hylephila phyleus
Order: Lepidoptrea
Family: Hesperiidae
Diet: Larvae feed on grasses such as Bermuda grass, St. Augustine grass and bluegrass. Adults feed on a wide variety of flower nectar.
Vegetation Association: Grasses. Found in moist grasslands, marshes, uncultivated fields, lawns, yards, and gardens.
Predators:
Life Stages: Complete metamorphosis; egg, larva, pupa, adult.
Notes: Young caterpillars feed and shed their skin, or molt. The final molt produces the pupa, and then the butterfly rests. Once free of the chrysalis, fluid from its body is pumped into its wings, the wings then are allowed to dry before it flies away to look for food and a mate. Its flight pattern is both rapid and skipping.
Photo: To be added.
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