Dun skipper

The Dun skipper is a small, plain butterfly, dark brown above and below, sometimes with a golden-olive sheen on a fresh head and thorax. Males show a black scent patch on the forewing and little other patterning, while females carry two small pale spots and a faint spot band beneath the hindwing.

Caterpillars feed on a variety of sedges, and adults fly in wet meadows, marshes, stream edges and woodland edges, visiting flowers such as milkweed, dogbane and selfheal. In most of its range there is one generation a year, though southern populations can produce two or more broods.