Monday, June 09, 2008

A new species for me!


This was fun...I saw this winged creature and took it for a moth because of the body shape, but it is most assuredly not a moth. It's a Silver-spotted Skipper (Epargyreus clarus), the largest of the normally little skippers, which is why it took me so long to identify it.

He was shy so it took a while to sneak up on him. I got pretty close. You can't see the silver spot unless you get a side view.

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