Gray Hairstreak on purple coneflower and brightly lit. This has become one of my favorite butterflies. (6/15/03)

This Gray Hairstreak is crawling on my yellow lantana and is backlit. This butterfly is about the size of a nickel. (6/15/03)

Here's a Long-Tailed Skipper posing on my Pineapple Sage. (6/22/03)

I thought this was a moth, but it may be a Skipper from looking in my book. The flower is gaillardia. (6/21/03)

A Virginia Lady on a Stokes Aster in the garden center at the hardware store here in Melrose. (5/10/03)

Same Virginia Lady as previous, fixing to leave this flower. (5/10/03)

Another Virginia Lady, this one gracing a Stokes Aster in my garden a couple of days later. (5/12/03)

A Rattlebox Moth atop one of my purple coneflowers. (6/15/02)

Same Rattlebox Moth resting on a leaf of Mexican Sage. (6/15/02)

Gray Hairstreak on yellow lantana. (6/15/03)

Gray Hairstreak on red pentas.

Gray Hairstreak with a damaged wing on the ground in the driveway. It had trouble flying. (5/31/04)

Carolina Satyr on the wall in my garage after it flew in through the open door. I shooed it outside. (9/13/03)

Carolina Satyr on bidens alba on the roadside of CR 234 outside Micanopy. (10/31/04)

Carolina Satyr on a blade of grass in the backyard.

Phaon Crescent in the mowed grass. (06/05/05)