Scientific name: Arthropoda: Insecta: Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Atelopedes campestris
Common Name: Satchem
Country: USA
State/District: VA
County: Fairfax
Date:
Photographer: Susan Hitch
Identifier: E. M. Barrows
Collector: not applicable
Location: Dyke Marsh Wildlife Preserve Boardwalk
Keywords: A brown butterfly brown insect DMWP DMWPar Garden-1 pink flower skipper Additional Information:
A hidden predatory arthropod (such as an ambush bug or crab spider) is holding this new male Satchem on Swamp Milkweed.
These predators frequently catch and consume small butterflies in DMWP.
E.M.B.
Venables, B. A., and E. M. Barrows.
1985.
Skippers: Pollinators or nectar thieves?
Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society
39: 299–312.
(Primarily about the Satchem and the Silver-spotted Skipper)
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