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Fiery Skipper (female) Hylephila phyleus | September 30, 2012 |
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Last year, I photographed a male fiery skipper (Hylephila phyleus) for the first time. (It's supposed to be more common in the south than the north, in this case, Pennsylvania.) Today I had a great opportunity to photograph a female fiery.
My first view may not be the most common one (at least for ID purposes), but I like it. |
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| The female fiery skipper isn't quite as bright a yellow as the male, and the end of each antenna is dark, rather than yellow. Whatever, she's certainly pretty. |
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The fiery skipper was happy with the Utah daisies, and so I was able to take a very long series of photos of her.
The brown dots on the wings-up view is the easiest way to ID a fiery. |
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Again, as for size, I'd say about a thumbnail (in comparison to a least skipper, which would be a pinky nail). To make size a little easier, a medium-size bumblebee perched near a fiery skipper.
Photo note: I used the Pentax K20D, with the Voigtlander 125mm macro lens, on September 30, 2012. |