Uploads from Bryan - oz4caster, tagged hesperiidaefamily

Checkered seeds

nobody@flickr.com (Bryan - oz4caster) — Wed, 08 May 2013 16:55:38 -0700

maybe a tropical checkered skipper but with less white than the last one I saw,
it looks small compared to the grass seeds

Checkered orange

nobody@flickr.com (Bryan - oz4caster) — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:51:52 -0700

Bryan - oz4caster posted a photo:

a checkered skipper on a tiny orange bristly mallow flower

Golden sheen

nobody@flickr.com (Bryan - oz4caster) — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:08:55 -0700

Bryan - oz4caster posted a photo:

a fiery skipper takes a break on a large grass blade resting on its four hind legs

Checker outer

nobody@flickr.com (Bryan - oz4caster) — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:22:36 -0700

Bryan - oz4caster posted a photo:

a common checkered skipper on a small yellow bloom that might be a fineleaf fournerved daisy

Poison oak pose

nobody@flickr.com (Bryan - oz4caster) — Mon, 30 May 2011 14:32:56 -0700

Bryan - oz4caster posted a photo:

a common checkered skipper, one of the larger skippers in this area,
posing this morning on a poison oak leaf

Fiery skipper

nobody@flickr.com (Bryan - oz4caster) — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:39:50 -0700

Bryan - oz4caster posted a photo:

sipping nectar from a clover bloom

Sharp skipper

nobody@flickr.com (Bryan - oz4caster) — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:45:19 -0700

Bryan - oz4caster posted a photo:

a common checkered skipper basking in the bright morning sun

Sparkling wing

nobody@flickr.com (Bryan - oz4caster) — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:08:02 -0700

Bryan - oz4caster posted a photo:

a common checkered skipper sips nectar from a tiny orange flower as it's wing sparkles in the sun

Clover cling

nobody@flickr.com (Bryan - oz4caster) — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:11:40 -0700

Bryan - oz4caster posted a photo:

a skipper butterfly clings to the sagging side of a clover bloom as it takes a sip

Common checkered skipper

nobody@flickr.com (Bryan - oz4caster) — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:17:15 -0800

Bryan - oz4caster posted a photo:

with hair sparkling in the bright morning sun

Skipper on ice plant flower

nobody@flickr.com (Bryan - oz4caster) — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:15:08 -0800

Bryan - oz4caster posted a photo:

the flower looks past its' prime but apparently still has some nectar for this clouded skipper

Long tail sipper

nobody@flickr.com (Bryan - oz4caster) — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:14:42 -0800

Bryan - oz4caster posted a photo:

a white-striped long tail skipper on a zinnia bloom not long ago

Zinnia sipper

nobody@flickr.com (Bryan - oz4caster) — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 17:58:23 -0700

Bryan - oz4caster posted a photo:

a white-striped long tail skipper on a zinnia bloom

Golden glisten

nobody@flickr.com (Bryan - oz4caster) — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:32:52 -0700

Bryan - oz4caster posted a photo:

a fiery skipper at the park

Skipper tale

nobody@flickr.com (Bryan - oz4caster) — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:22:17 -0700

Bryan - oz4caster posted a photo:

a long wing tail on this fairly large white-striped longtail skipper

Skipper takes a break

nobody@flickr.com (Bryan - oz4caster) — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:24:55 -0700

Bryan - oz4caster posted a photo:

this dark skipper took a break from flitting around between yellow lantana flowers and sat nice an still on a leaf for a photo, unlike a big beautiful dark swallowtail butterfly I saw earlier on my walk in a wooded area that would not settle down for a photo,
this one looks like a horace's duskywing

Whipper skipper

nobody@flickr.com (Bryan - oz4caster) — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:52:00 -0700

Bryan - oz4caster posted a photo:

a small skipper was whipping its' straw-like mouthpiece around from spot to spot to draw nectar from a pink zinnia bloom, might be a eufala skipper

Brown eye

nobody@flickr.com (Bryan - oz4caster) — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:48:02 -0700

Bryan - oz4caster posted a photo:

on a brown skipper with white spots seen at the park, probably a clouded skipper, lerema accius in the hesperiidae family