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National Moth Week was July 19-27, and the Summer 2025 gathering in Louisiana, July 19-27

Photos of insects and people from the 2024 BugGuide gathering in Idaho July 24-27

Moth submissions from National Moth Week 2024

Photos of insects and people from the 2022 BugGuide gathering in New Mexico, July 20-24

Photos of insects and people from the Spring 2021 gathering in Louisiana, April 28-May 2

Photos of insects and people from the 2019 gathering in Louisiana, July 25-27

Family Hesperiidae - Skippers

Dicot Skippers · Grass Skippers · Intermediate Skippers · Giant Skippers · Spread-wing Skippers
Show images of: caterpillars · adults · both

Subfamily Eudaminae - Dicot Skippers
Silver-spotted Skipper (Epargyreus clarus) - Epargyreus clarus Potrillo Skipper - Cabares potrillo Long Tailed Skipper? - Urbanus proteus Northern Cloudywing - Thorybes pylades Desert Cloudywing - Achalarus casica Epargyreus clarus Skipper in pollinator garden - Epargyreus clarus Hesperiidae, Silver-spotted skipper - Epargyreus clarus

Subfamily Hesperiinae - Grass Skippers
Early spring skipper - Lon hobomok - male Long Dash - Polites mystic - male - female Ocola Skipper - Panoquina ocola Delaware Skipper - Anatrytone logan Delaware Skipper - Anatrytone logan Delaware Skipper - Anatrytone logan Clouded Skipper - Lerema accius Folded Winged Butterfly - Hylephila phyleus

Subfamily Heteropterinae - Intermediate Skippers
Arctic Skipper - Carterocephalus mandan Russet Skipperling - Piruna pirus Pretty, but unknown species - Carterocephalus mandan Arizona lepidopteran - Piruna aea Many-spotted Skipperling - Piruna aea Piruna pirus? - Piruna pirus Carterocephalus mandan Russet Skipperling - Piruna pirus

Subfamily Megathyminae - Giant Skippers

Subfamily Pyrginae - Spread-wing Skippers
Common Streaky-skipper - Celotes nessus Heliopetes ericetorum - female Butterfly - Erynnis - male Checkered skipper - Pyrgus - Burnsius Dreamy duskywing - Erynnis icelus Checkered Skipper - Burnsius Mournful or Funereal Duskywing - Erynnis funeralis Sleepy Duskywing - Erynnis brizo - male


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