Give Me a Home Where the Butterflies Roam

Give Me a Home
Where the Butterflies Roam

Photographs, Text and Mark-up by Michelle Baker

Sachem Skipper, Atalopedes campestris

Sachem Skipper, Atalopedes campestris

Not as brilliantly colored as other Butterflies, Skippers are smaller and, at times, harder to see. Dusty gold wings keep them well enough disguised against the yellow spikes of this Coneflower. Skippers dart actively around drinking nectar from a wide variety of blossoming plants.

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