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.
Coastal Skipper one candidate and 8 to 14 hours for two. Candidates are set tasks to demonstrate their ability as a Coastal Skipper and may be asked questions on any part of the syllabus for all practical and shorebased courses up to Coastal Skipper. This course assumes that the student has already studied navigation to Day Skipper Shorebased standard. This is an advanced course in navigation and meteorology for candidates for the Coastal Skipper and Yachtmaster Offshore Certificate. The course lasts about 40 hours. It may be taken continuously over several days, or as evening or several weekends, or by distance learning.