Silver-spotted Skipper -- Epargyreus clarus

@Christel: Recently I have been on several walks stalking these creatures... It is always a thrill to get back home to see if I achieved a good capture. Sometimes success and sometimes failure. It does not matter that much though as the walking in the countryside is a treat.

@Eric Fry: I believe that I counted ten different species that day! I was about to burn up my camera... I added a couple more from another day taken in the vegetation surrounding the buttonbush. We have had well distributed rain and the vegetation is remarkably green. That means lots of butterflies this summer. The pay back will come this winter when all that tall green grass and those giant, lush weeds will dry out and provide fuel for wild fires... You have to take the good with the bad.

@Bookfool: You can't look outside around here without seeing one fly by. Maybe they migrated to Oklahoma for vacation!