The Dun Skipper is a small, dark brown skipper with a distinctive golden-orange head that contrasts with its dark body, making it one of the easier 'dull' skippers to identify. It is a sedge specialist and common in wet meadows and marsh edges throughout much of North America. Adults visit a wide variety of flowers for nectar.
Habitat
Wet meadows, marshes, and woodland edges with sedge
Diet
Larvae: sedges. Adults: nectar
How common
Common
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