July 18, 2009. Kentucky Manor, 5211 Kentucky Avenue, Nashville, Davidson
County, TN
360934N (36.15944) and 0865102W (-86.85055)
Another Bell's Roadside-Skipper enjoyed dinner at the Manor on July 18. I
sat with this individual for twenty minutes starting at 5:10 p.m. while it
enjoyed impatiens and left it still nectaring. It was not as sharply marked
at the one on July 13-14. For comparison see emails of July 14; BAMONA image
by John Froeschauer, http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species?l=2162
<http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species?l=2162&chosen_state=48*Texas>
&chosen_state=48*Texas; and Arkansas images,
http://www.hr-rna.com/RNA/Main%20pages/Skipper%20frame%20page.htm (click on
the Bell's picture box at the top of the left column). I am not awareof sex
diffeences. The Arkansas site mentions that Bell's likes "to perch on leaf
tops...," as this one did and looking back the other did also. It did not
open its wings.
Michael Lee Bierly, Nashville, Davidson County, TN
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