{"id":2228,"date":"2019-07-16T17:16:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T22:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=2228"},"modified":"2019-07-19T14:19:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T19:19:03","slug":"fiery-skipper-and-silver-spotted-skipper-butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=2228","title":{"rendered":"Fiery Skipper and Silver-spotted Skipper Butterflies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/SilverSpottedSkipper.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2229\" width=\"590\" height=\"787\" srcset=\"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/SilverSpottedSkipper.jpg 480w, https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/SilverSpottedSkipper-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><figcaption><em>Silver-spotted Skipper<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This morning our yellow blooms of lantana had come to life with a fluttering burst of several Fiery Skipper butterflies, and with them, one larger Silver-spotted Skipper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fiery Skippers are very small orange and brown or black butterflies that \u2013 when they\u2019re not fluttering from bloom to bloom \u2013 often hold their wings in a kind of triangle shape, with the forewings held upright, and the hindwings folded flat. At first glance, they appear kind of plain, even drab, but a closer look shows big black eyes in a fuzzy face that\u2019s very appealing. I watched several probing individual yellow blooms with long, thread-like black proboscis. Their short antennae have tiny orange clubs on the ends.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Silver-spotted Skipper is larger, but with a similar shape. It\u2019s a much darker brown, with a prominent silver-white band on the underside of its hindwings.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In doing some research about them \u2013 because I know very little about butterflies, but would like to learn \u2013 I found one source that said Silver-spotted Skippers almost never visit yellow flowers \u2013 but this one was visiting yellow lantana blooms, and I have often seen them in past years in our lantana. Maybe it\u2019s not their first choice \u2013 maybe they have few choices here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning our yellow blooms of lantana had come to life with a fluttering burst of several Fiery Skipper butterflies, and with them, one larger Silver-spotted Skipper. The Fiery Skippers are very small orange and brown or black butterflies that \u2013 when they\u2019re not fluttering from bloom to bloom \u2013 often hold their wings in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2230,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions\/2230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}