Delaware Skipper

Delaware Skipper, Anatrytone logan

The Delaware skipper may be seen in parts of eastern North America from Canada down through El Salvador. They are found in open areas, particularly wet ones, such as marshes, prairies, fields, and residential areas. As a type of grass skipper, the larvae feed mostly at night on grasses and sedges including big bluestem, switchgrass, and wooly beard grass. The larvae often make shelters of the leaves as they eat them. The adults drink nectar from many flowers including milkweeds, mountain mint, marsh fleabane, sweet pepperbush, buttonbush, thistles, and pickerelweed. In the north, the Delaware skipper has only one brood a year whereas further south it can be more than two per year.