Bug FAQPepper and Salt Skipper
Amblyscirtes hegon (formerly Mastor hegon) · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Hesperiidae
The pepper-and-salt skipper is a small butterfly with a wingspan of about 25 to 31 mm. Adults fly from April through July and there is one generation each year.
Source: Wikipedia
How to recognize it
Amblyscirtes hegon, called the pepper-and-salt skipper, belongs to the skipper family Hesperiidae.
Source: Wikipedia
Size
Its wingspan ranges from 25 to 31 mm.
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What it eats
Caterpillars eat grasses such as Kentucky bluegrass, big bluestem, little bluestem and broadleaf bamboo grass. Adult butterflies sip nectar from flowers like viburnum and blackberry.
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Life cycle
Adults are on the wing from April to July and produce one generation each year.
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When you see it
You will see them flying between April and July.
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Where it comes from
Its native range includes eastern Canada and the eastern United States.
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Where it is found in the US
Recorded in 35 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Vermont, New Hampshire, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Maine, Massachusetts.
Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.
Source: GBIF
Status: native in North America; native in United States; native in Canada. Source: iNaturalist
Months it is reported in the US
Source: GBIF
More photos
Same family (Hesperiidae)
Sources
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amblyscirtes_hegon
Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia
Text written 2026-10-24 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-24.