Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: DAILY BUTTERFLIES Page 24, 1 by catbird8

catbird8 wrote:
Pford-1854

Your little hairstreak, wings open, is a female Gray Hairstreak. The male will have an orange abdomen. It is the only hairsteak that will regularly keep its wings open.

Your unknown white is a Checkered White, male.

Becky, your photo at the top of this string is a female Orange-barred Sulphur. I will try to post a picture of one with wings open.

For you lovers of the very small butterflies, attached is a photo taken in Roswell, NM, this past September. Wing costa is 3/8th inch. Recognized as the smallest butterfly in N. America and considered unofficially as the smallest butterfly in the world. This is the Western Pygmy Blue.

Rod