Echinacea attracts butterflies. From the top, a black swallowtail, tiger swallowtail, and silver spotted skipper.

@ahnonotquite submitted: i have been calling this the dinker for a solid day now. i’d like a species name if you can figure it out (there’s more detail if you zoom in!).

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Lol....just hangin out. It’s a silver-spotted skipper!

Hazy mid-summer day on the Sods, Part 2.

The planet's fantastic life energy reaches its peak in mid to late summer as the sun's precious light shrinks by the day and every living thing senses its time is running out. On the Plains of Dolly Sods, where the growing season is already compressed by the high elevation, plants compete for the swirling, buzzing masses of insects with their gaudy blooms and produce successive waves of berries to seed new generations. The drone of the insects carrying out their instinctive missions of renewal is constantly in your head as they dive and dart and skirt around you. You barely register as a distraction against the great drama playing out here - one whose stakes are survival, regeneration, salvation. I feel so privileged to have connected with this life force in the most intimate way, even for the few short years of my mayfly existence. I will die a happy man for having immersed myself in its lovely, purposeful chaos and becoming part of something much greater than myself.

Got some photos of a Silver Spotted Skipper Today! 7/19/22 Tenants Harbor.

friends :D

Silver-spotted Skipper, Epargyreus clarus

Silver-spotted Skipper (Epargyreus clarus) butterfly, the only thing it would perch on for more than a second was this fresh and appealing Chicken poop...

Campanula - Blue Bells - a plant pollinators enjoy! This little Silver spotted Skipper probed it for nectar for days!

Silver spotted skipper on peaches-and-cream flowers

@snickeringdragon submitted: hello :D saw this little freak a few days back and was wondering if youd have an idea on what it might be? apologies for the image quality it was having a great time on a leaf and i didnt wanna disturb it too much

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bonus butterflies i saw today (no need for id but im pretty sure the first is a red-banded hairstreak :])

Hello! Someone lost their mustache! Oh no. That lil freak (affectionate) looks to be a sycamore tussock moth. And yes you're right about the hairstreak!

some skippers enjoying our butterfly bushes 🦋

SILVER SPOTTED SKIPPER BUTTERFLY

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Epargyreus clarus on Phlox paniculata / Silver-Spotted Skipper on Garden Phlox at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC