Fiery skipper

The Fiery skipper is a small, fast-flying butterfly with a large head and short antennae; males are bright orange above with jagged dark borders, while females are darker brown with an irregular band of orange blotches.

Caterpillars feed on lawn and pasture grasses such as Bermuda grass and crabgrass, each building its own silk-lined tube or burrow among the grass roots, and because it cannot survive cold winters the species spreads north from warmer regions again every summer.