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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Some of the butterflies hanging out at RTPI today include the Red-spotted Purple, Monarch, Great Spangled Fritillary, Peck’s Skipper, and Pearl Crescents (Phyciodes tharos) like this one.
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