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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Butterflies and Skippers (Papilionoidea) » Skippers (Hesperiidae) » Spread-wing Skippers (Pyrginae) » Erynnini » Duskywings (Erynnis) » Horace's Duskywing - Hodges#3952 (Erynnis horatius)
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Alabama Skipper - Erynnis horatius
Copyright © 2012 Stephen_WV

Alabama Skipper - Erynnis horatius
Mobile Botanical Gardens, Mobile County, Alabama, USA
July 29, 2012
This skipper was enjoying the exotic flowers at Mobile's Botanical Gardens.

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Contributed by Stephen_WV on 1 August, 2012 - 8:18am
Last updated 19 August, 2012 - 11:43am

Moved
Moved from Skippers.
… Stephen_WV, 19 August, 2012 - 11:43am login or register to post comments

Looks like...
a Horace's
… Betsy Betros, 18 August, 2012 - 11:17pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank-you Betsy!
Thanks Betsy. I'm always delighted to find just about any skipper except Silver-spotted and Pecks, the two most often found on my home place. I find Skippers hard to ID, though, so I appreciate your ID on this one.
… Stephen_WV, 19 August, 2012 - 11:45am login or register to post comments

 
Yeah..
skippers are the sparrows of the butterfly world!
… Betsy Betros, 19 August, 2012 - 2:12pm login or register to post comments

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