By far, the skipper I see most often in the yard is the Peck’s Skipper-Polites peckius.
I’ve never caught one with its wings flat. Most often they only partially open them.
One day to go in Pollinator Week. Not sure who’s going to show up tomorrow. Quiet day today here photographically as we are getting some nice steady relatively gentle rain which should be great for the gardens.
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Beautiful images of this Skipper, Steve! I hope tomorrow brings you another wonderful pollinating find!
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Thank you, Deborah! I did find something nice this morning. 🙂
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Yeah!
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A beautifully clear capture Steve, …the wings look like brown/cream patterned velvet, …✨Penn✨
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Thank you, Penn! Although the butterfly’s body, and all Lepidoptera for that matter, is covered with scales they are nice soft ones unlike those on reptiles. I don’t touch them but I bet velvety is an apt description.
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The details on skippers are so interesting. I’ve never noticed the kind of hair clusters that extend from the base of this one’s wings. Your photo caught them wonderfully well.
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Those hairs are like a nice soft scarf running between the wings. Quite a few butterflies and moths feature those.
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I hope this doesn’t make you Peck’s Bad Boy.
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As a child I wish I had been a bad boy but I was always timid about the punishment I might receive.
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I love it’s graceful pose on the leaf. Both wonderful photos!
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Thank you, Belinda. The post that some butterflies take has almost a heroic posture to them. 🙂
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Wonderfully detailed and lets us get a really good look at this butterfly. (We get the Essex Skipper here, but I’ve never seen one in such detail.)
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Thanks, Ann! We are lucky to have quite a few here. They are a fairly large group with some different species in different parts of the country.
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Nice. I have such a difficult time telling one skipper species from another, but I enjoy them all.
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Most have distinctive markings but it still, for me at least, requires the use of guides to make an ID.
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