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Atalopedes campestris
Small brown butterfly with a small spot of white on top of fore wing. This guy was spotted enjoying the flowers on a Rose of Sharon bush.
I will split the spotting then. I was pretty sure it was the same one in each pic. However I spent a good hour circling the rose of sharon trying to get a good pic of each butterfly hanging about the bush.
It would appear you have at least two different species of Skippers, here. The first is a grass skipper. If I were to hazard a guess, I'd say a female Sachem. The next two look like Duskywings. Hard to say which one, I'd guess Horace's or Wild Indigo. Juvenal's, as I understand, it flies primarily in the Spring.
Spotted on Aug 8, 2011
Submitted on Aug 21, 2011
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