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The Little Wood Satyr Butterfly has a 2.9 to 4.2 cm wingspan. Its light brown, rounded wings have two yellow-rimmed black eye spots on each wing. The underside is paler but with additional eye spots on each wing.
It has a dancing, bouncing and erratic flight through grassy areas and woodland openings in the Algonquin Highlands. This habitat provides shelter and food for the adults.
There is one brood from June-July. Females lay pale yellowish-green eggs singly on grass blades. The larvae is pale greenish brown with yellowish lengthwise strips on its sides and is covered in a fine hair.
Adult feed on sap and aphid honeydew, but rarely flower nectar.
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LITTLE WOOD SATYR
Megisto cymela
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