The Delaware Skipper is a clean, bright orange skipper with a simple black border on the wing margins and no forewing stigma in males, making it one of the more straightforward eastern skippers to identify. It frequents wet meadows and marshes associated with its grass host plants. Adults are swift, direct fliers that zip between flowers.
Habitat
Wet meadows, marshes, and stream edges
Diet
Larvae: big bluestem and other grasses. Adults: nectar
How common
Common
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