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Alabama Skipper - Erynnis horatius

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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Moved
Moved from Skippers.

Looks like...
a Horace's

 
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.

 
Yeah..
skippers are the sparrows of the butterfly world!