MOORHEAD--The Dakota skipper butterfly has a sad, secretive story to tell. Once free to flit over millions of acres of unmolested prairie, the humble Dakota skipper's range has been drastically ...

There is a group of day-flying butterflies which look rather like moths, being short, stubby, and with fat bodies. These are ...

T o identify these small butterflies, it’s important to know their size and markings.Silver-spotted skippers have a wingspan of 1 3/4 to 2 1/4 inches. The upperside of the wings is dark brown ...

The moth-like skipper butterfly is no Monarch — they're typically an inch wide, ruddy brown and fuzzy. Somewhat homely, you might say. But to Erik Runquist's eyes, they're a beautiful sight.

The late morning is clear and warm during my walk. Previous days gave some rain and clouds, and now we have sunshine filtering through the forest trees as I go on my usual woods route. Crossing the ...

Dakota skipper butterflies used to flutter above the tall grasses of the Hole-in-the-Mountain Prairie in abundance, drinking from the many yellow coneflowers. At that time, the small butterflies ...

Vanishing prairie land was an obvious threat to the Dakota skipper, a prairie butterfly, but experts still wonder why the insects continued to disappear in the mid-2000s.

In some skippers, males have specialized scales on their forewings that produce pheromones to attract females. There are a lot of skippers—3,600 worldwide, about a third of all North American ...

A new butterfly species, _Zographetus mathewi_, has been discovered by lepidopterists in the biodiversity hotspot of Western Ghats, India.

It may not have taken the long-delayed Highway 100 extension project, construction on which is now slated to begin in 2013, to drive out the Byssus skipper butterfly of highway-stopping fame. As ...

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