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.
Crystal skipper human-made dredge spoil islands that have been colonized by seaside little bluestem. The crystal skipper is globally rare but locally abundant. Much of the sand dunes on Bogue Banks have been destroyed by development, leaving little habitat for the crystal skipper outside the two state parks. The crystal skipper is a federal species of concern. A “species of concern” is an informal designation by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and is not a term that is defined under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. The crystal skipper is not federally listed as threatened or endangered. Insects cannot be listed under