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Cephrenes augiades
Body stout. Wings black with orange markings. Female with smaller orange markings than male and sometimes uniform dark brown. Wingspan to about 4 cm. (1.5 inches)
Seeing it fairly regularly around my garden at the moment feeding on nectar from my daisies.
Spotted on Sep 30, 2016
Submitted on Oct 10, 2016
5 Comments
Thank you Jim :-). Yes it seems the Skipper butterflies are related to this particular butterfly
These look much like what we call skippers in Nevada. Nice photos, James!
I've always added them there. Insects are part of the animalia kingdom, so they'll be fine :)
Thanks again Neil. Yes I have joined that mission, but wasn't so sure about putting insects in it, but I will now. :-)
It looks like a painting. Gorgeous. Great spotting, James. There's a good local mission you may wish to add this to also - Flora & Fauna of New South Wales - http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8642...