BUTTERFLIES OF GEORGIA’S PIEDMONT REGION 

 

Family Hesperiidae (the skippers), subfamily Pyrginae (spread-wing skippers)

wild indigo duskywing

Erynnis baptisiae

 

 

 

nectaring on Lespedeza repens

Monastery of the Holy Spirit

Rockdale County, 7 August 2011

 

Left to right: Images 1 through 3, the less tattered of two individuals nectaring on the same Lespedeza cuneata grouping, when not tangling aerially; image # 4, the more tattered of the two.

Monastery of the Holy Spirit

Rockdale County, 1 September 2011

 
 Bond Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Bondsview Road

Bibb County, 8 July 2011

 

Southeast of Rock Chapel Mountain [now quarried away], near Swift Creek

DeKalb County, 25 March 2012

Photos by Jim Allison