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Butterfly Among Zinnias
There’s a lovely online field guide for butterflies. This is a skipper, a silver-spotted skipper to be exact. It’s scientific name is Epargyreus clarus. I took these photos less than an hour ago. I’ve been relying on my iPhone quite a bit lately. I vow henceforth to carry my Cannon Rebel with me everywhere IContinue reading “Butterfly Among Zinnias”
Butterfly & Zinnia
Butterflies
Butterflies
Today I have the usual suspects: a brown skipper and her cabbage cousin.
Butterflies
Butterfly
I’m guessing that this skipper is called a Common Mellana. Apparently all skippers are from the family Hesperiidae.