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Horned Grebe at the Celery Farm
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Monday Morning Mystery 052410
Alice Leurck photographed this butterfly at the Celery Farm recently. We know it's a skipper — but what kind? (Thanks, Alice!)
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Leave it to those nasty name-changing taxonomists! They’re not very POLITE. But the skipper (ahoy there!) is Polites coras. According to the Guide, Peck’s is the old name and Yellowpatch is the new. And by struggling with Jim’s MMMs, we learn something new every week. Thanks.
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Peck’s Skipper
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As you rightly know, my patience wears low when trying to identify those little brown things; but I’ll take a wild guess at Yellow Patch, from those spots and stripes on its dorsal wings. (Even my rhyme and meter are slightly off base, for my ignorance of skippers is a total disgrace.)
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Tom Burr
Leave it to those nasty name-changing taxonomists! They’re not very POLITE. But the skipper (ahoy there!) is Polites coras. According to the Guide, Peck’s is the old name and Yellowpatch is the new. And by struggling with Jim’s MMMs, we learn something new every week. Thanks.
Deedee Burnside
Peck’s Skipper
Tom Burr
As you rightly know, my patience wears low when trying to identify those little brown things; but I’ll take a wild guess at Yellow Patch, from those spots and stripes on its dorsal wings. (Even my rhyme and meter are slightly off base, for my ignorance of skippers is a total disgrace.)