Skipper but not in the UK

agavegeoff · Post by **agavegeoff** » Fri Sep 19, 2014 10:11 pm

Hi, All.
Posted a photo earlier in the year of the first Skipper I've ever seen. then went on holiday and what was the first butterfly I saw.

Will say where later, but clue is long flight west.

millerd · Post by **millerd** » Fri Sep 19, 2014 10:19 pm

There are Essex Skippers in the States - and that's what this little chap looks like to me... They are believed to have stowed away as ova or larvae on grass exported from Europe.

Dave

Post by **Padfield** » Sat Sep 20, 2014 6:47 am

I agree with Dave. The second is a male Essex skipper and the first looks like a female. Americans call this the European skipper.

Guy

Post by **Pete Eeles** » Sat Sep 20, 2014 6:54 am

And where, believe it or not, it is considered a pest in some regions!

Cheers,

- Pete

agavegeoff · Post by **agavegeoff** » Sat Sep 20, 2014 6:42 pm

Hi,All.
Calgary Zoo area inside and out. Alberta. Canada.

David M · Post by **David M** » Sat Sep 20, 2014 9:42 pm

Pete Eeles wrote:And where, believe it or not, it is considered a pest in some regions!

Finding it hard to believe, Pete, in all honesty.

How can this particular butterfly species be deemed a 'pest'?

Jack Harrison · Post by **Jack Harrison** » Sun Sep 21, 2014 5:01 pm

I breathed a sigh of relief on Friday morning when I realised that UK was NOT about to lose a Skipper. It would have been a tragedy if the Chequered Skipper had to be deleted from uk.butterflies.co.uk as no longer occurring in UK but only in the former UK (FUK). Not my original joke but a variation thereof. That referendum would have thrown up some odd side effects had it gone the other way .

Jack

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