Woodland Skipper

Ochlodes sylvanoides

Habitat:

Meyer Ranch Park, a meadow area

1 Species ID Suggestions

Shalryn 11 years ago

Large Skipper

Ochlodes Venatas

4 Comments

AdamBrown 11 years ago

Thanks Shalryn for the ID help. Do you think Woodland Skipper (Ochlodes sylvanoides) might be a good match?

KristaHerman 11 years ago

I found some of these the other day. I was wondering what they might be as well. From online photo's I would say Large Skipper is a good guess.

Shalryn 11 years ago

If I had to guess, I would say that this butterfly or its ancestors escaped from someone's living collection or was shipped over in a packing crate or with some sort of natural cargo. The large skipper tends to live in Europe and Asia, as far as Japan. It feeds on grasses, so it likes meadows.