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Silver-Spotted Skipper Epargyreus clarus | Sept. 15, 2013 |
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Over the years I've lived in State College, Pennsylvania, I've had the good opportunity to come across many silver-spotted skippers, so I thought it a good time to update this page with new photos (and, consequently, new text).
After all, how can one look at a face such as the following and not want to have this skipper seen? |
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| The next photo is a little more diagnostic, in terms of identification. On the underside of the hindwing, the silver-spotted skipper has a large, silver spot. On the upper wing, the skipper has a series of gold rectangles. |
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| Overall, the silver-spotted skipper has varous earth colors, but can also be quite dark, as in the following. (A little bit of backlighting helped "ignite" the golden rectangles.) |
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| Finally, far better than one silver-spotted skipper is having two together in a frame. |
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The silver-spotted skipper is one of the largest skippers, approaching the size of a cabbage white, which is the most common white butterfly one can see in the US northeast.
Photo note: I used the Pentax K20D, with the Voigtlander 125mm macro lens, for these photographs, taken during 2012 and 2013. |