large skipper

[turlough]

Butterflies usually move around too much to get good photos of them but this male Large Skipper (Ochlodes sylvanus) was nice enough to keep sitting on this flower long enough for me to get several nice photos of him. You can even see his proboscis, both curled up and straightened out.

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Comments

[cmcmck]

We have one of the species here that goes by the lovely name of the dingy skipper!

[shirebound]

Those close-ups are stunning. He's so handsome.

[yourlibrarian]

Oh, good pics!

[turlough]

I'm now imagining a sad, tattered little butterfly with a broken antenna and feeling very sorry for it :-)

[turlough]

It always amazes me how photographs show up details you somehow just don't notice otherwise.

[turlough]

I felt very lucky!

[adafrog]

Neat. :)

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Pretty!! Thank you for sharing. :)

[turlough]

Such a nice and kind skipper, sitting still for me!

[turlough]

It almost glowed in the sun!

[cmcmck]

Actually quite a pretty little thing:

[turlough]

What an elegant little fellow!