Zabulon skipper lighter brown and having small black dots. The overwintering stage is unknown. The Zabulon skipper has two broods per year. Recorded food plants of the caterpillars are grasses such as "Agrostis", "Dactylis", "Elytrigia", "Eragrostis", "Leymus", "Poa", "Puccinellia" and "Tridens". Zabulon skipper The Zabulon skipper ("Poanes zabulon") (sometimes called the southern dimorphic skipper) is a North American butterfly first described by the French naturalists Jean Baptiste Boisduval and John Eatton Le Conte from the state of Georgia, United States. This small butterfly has slim, triangular wings. The upperside of the male's wings is mostly orange with the margins being dark brown.
Lulworth skipper in) long larva spins a compact cocoon on the site of the eggshell. In this, it will overwinter until around the third week of April, at which point it will eat its way out by making a small hole in the side of the sheath. The caterpillar will then search for tender Tor-grass blades and feed upon them by chewing out notches from the margin. During this time, it will live separately, within a tube composed of the two edges of a blade bound by cords of silk. Fresh tubes will be made as the caterpillar grows larger. Lulworth skipper