If you look to the left, you'll see a black and yellow butterfly (there's another type staring straight on over to the right, but I never got a good enough look at that one to even describe it). The one I'm curious about it the little yellow and black one.
I don't know what it is - I know it's not the greatest picture but it wasn't very cooperative (It was far more interested in my buddelia!)
Difficult to say but I'll pick a female black swallowtail or eastern Tiger soon to lay eggs by the size of the rear body.
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/bflyusa/nj/895.htm
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Are we looking at the same photo P.Creel?
The one on the left is a Silver Spotted Skipper.
I can't see the other one well enough to guess.
Yep you are right PL it seems to be Silver Spotted Skipper. I'm not used to see skippers that large :)
Yes, I agree, it's in the skipper family (and the other one, who's head is facing the camera is a skipper also, but a smaller one)........it's absolutely not a swallowtail, I know them 100%. (See my other pics on the photos forum of the swallowtails on the buddelia).
Thanks folks! I appreciate this - hadn't ever seen this little critter before!
Closest thing I have found to the as yet unknown b'fly on the left is a White Admiral http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/bflyusa/nj/24.htm
But that's not right, either. This one doesn't have any red on the outside of the wings like the White Admiral...Got me stumped.
