Skipper on clover

 

Sipping on clover, over and over

 

A skipper butterfly pauses on a clover flower for a refreshing sip of nectar. 

Caterpillar and flower

 

That must have been a long crawl to get to a flower so tall.

 

 

What is that?

 

The flower - maybe an echinacea?  The caterpillar - maybe a skipper butterfly?

 

 

Feeding on flowers

If you can identify the flower and /or the caterpillar, post a comment.  This unexpected find was seen in a field of flowers in southern Quebec, near the middle of the Vermont border with Quebec.

 

 

Skipper on a leaf

A flighty butterfly that does not sit still long enough to be photographed does one and gets the other.

 

Zabulon skipper

This Poanes zabulon takes a break on a Rubus phoenicolasius leaf.

Poanes zabulon

This wineberry leaf provides a rest area for a zabulon skipper.