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Delaware Skipper

Posted on Jul 6, 2015

Delaware Skipper

This skipper was very jumpy and difficult to photograph even at a considerable distance! It is a Delaware Skipper (Anatrytone logan) butterfly, and it was enjoying this plot of soil, rocks and emerging vegetation. Sometimes one is reminded why they call them “skippers”…

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Northeastern Skippers

Posted on Jun 9, 2015

Northeastern Skippers

Sean calls them the sparrows of the butterfly world, and those little brown skippers can be quite a difficult group of butterflies to identify. He plans on spending some time this year trying to photograph as many species of skippers as possible for identification keys. It’s also a good exercise for him to sharpen his own ID skills with them. Photographed by RTPI Affiliate Sean Graesser for the Meet Your Neighbours global biodiversity project in Connecticut and New Jersey for the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History.

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