Power Lunch
Resubmitted Nov., '10
~Horace's Duskywing Skipper~
A skipper butterfly browses an explosion of pink allium blossoms. How could all those buds not be packed with powerful pink nectar??? Gotta be! :) (I think this is a Horace's Duskywing Skipper. As our resident butterfly expert, Maria Gonzalez, once pointed out to me, there are over 3,000 different varieties of skippers and some of them are so similar in color and markings, it's hard to tell the difference.)
Photo taken at Zilker Botanical Gardens - Austin, TX
Uploaded on May 20, 2010