#Fiery Skipper

[onenicebugperday]

Nico W. (o**************t@gmail.com) submitted: You think you could ID this little guy for me? Used to catch them as a kid but idk what they’re called and it’s been bugging me (pun intended). I’m in [removed] if that helps with the ID (please remove location)

Sure! It’s a fiery skipper, which is a type of butterfly :)

[indigrassy]

Show-y and fiery

[speakingofnature]

Fiery Skipper

After October passes this is an image of how I prefer to recall the month.

[lunarlotuscove]

Tiny lil skipper friends

Saturday September 21st 2024 12:04-3:47pm

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[faguscarolinensis]

Hylephila phyleus on Pycnanthemum muticum / Fiery Skipper on Clustered Mountain Mint at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[halffizzbin]

New favorite butterfly: fiery skipper (Hylephila phyleus)

Couldn’t catch either with its wings open, but those have brown and bright orange markings.

[harleycrittercorner]

Animal

Fiery Skipper

[the-diary-of-vivienne]

[i-eat-butterflies-when-im-alone]

FIERY SKIPPER BUTTERFLY

a moth!!!!

wrong!!!!! it is a butterfly!!!!!!

[onenicebugperday]

@pyrohorse submitted: I'd love to know what this orange moth is, located in coastal Texas. Also bonus extremely tiny spider.

It's not a moth! It's a skipper butterfly. Specifically a fiery skipper. Spider is blurry obvi but may be a wall spider in the genus Oecobius.

[indigrassy]

You can't skip lunch

[speakingofnature]

Fiery Skipper

The waning days of August find the zinnias in their prime, while the Fiery Skipper finds them to its liking.

[lunarlotuscove]

You can't convince me these guys don't have the cutest faces (as someone who still has a lot of work to do on their big phobia I never thought I'd say that about an insects face but here I am)

Thursday September 19th 2024 10:13am

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[faguscarolinensis]

Hylephila phyleus on Buddleja davidii / Fiery Skipper on Butterfly Bush