A mix of skippers in reverse chrono-order, 2009 - 2007, and a few earlier. Trying to learn this tough group.
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Jack Connor > One of our favorite backyard buttterflies, Problema bulenta, the rare skipper, lost from science for 90 years, after its discovery in Georgia in 1830s to its rediscovery in NC in 1925. More recently it has been found to be living on several brackish rivers in southern NJ. We usually see several in J's garden in July, as here on 7-3-04. Spartina cynosuroides, apparently their host plant in NJ, grows along Nacote Creek a few hundred yards away.
Jack Connor > Leonard's skipper, Hesperia leonardus, Manumuskin WMA, 9-22-02
Jack Connor > Peck's skipper, Lakehurst, 7-23-05
Jack Connor > Peck's skipper on vetch, Dividing Creek Road (Cumberland Co Xerces Count), 8-2-05
Jack Connor > Silver-spotted skipper, 5-29-04, J's garden
Jack Connor > Horace's duskywing in J's garden, 7-27-05, a butterfly whose look changes very much depending on lighting situation.
Jack Connor > Same individual Horace's as previous photo, this time in sunlight, 7-27-05.
Jack Connor > Horace's duskywings also vary as their wings wear, as in this murky one from J's garden, 7-6-02. Solo white spot inside line of four spots on leading edge of FW a key mark for Horace's, apparently.
Jack Connor > Possibly a wild indigo duskywing? FW white dots are smaller than seen on Juvenal's/Horace's and inner half of FW is dark. Kennedy Farm June 2 06.
One of our favorite backyard buttterflies, Problema bulenta, the rare skipper, lost from science for 90 years, after its discovery in Georgia in 1830s to its rediscovery in NC in 1925. More recently it has been found to be living on several brackish rivers in southern NJ. We usually see several in J's garden in July, as here on 7-3-04. Spartina cynosuroides, apparently their host plant in NJ, grows along Nacote Creek a few hundred yards away.
> One of our favorite backyard buttterflies, Problema bulenta, the rare skipper, lost from science for 90 years, after its discovery in Georgia in 1830s to its rediscovery in NC in 1925. More recently it has been found to be living on several brackish rivers in southern NJ. We usually see several in J's garden in July, as here on 7-3-04. Spartina cynosuroides, apparently their host plant in NJ, grows along Nacote Creek a few hundred yards away.
One of our favorite backyard buttterflies, Problema bulenta, the rare skipper, lost from science for 90 years, after its discovery in Georgia in 1830s to its rediscovery in NC in 1925. More recently it has been found to be living on several brackish rivers in southern NJ. We usually see several in J's garden in July, as here on 7-3-04. Spartina cynosuroides, apparently their host plant in NJ, grows along Nacote Creek a few hundred yards away.
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