Arthropoda: Insecta: Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Pompeius verna [return to Home Page]

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Scientific name: Arthropoda: Insecta: Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Pompeius verna
Common Name: Little Glassy Wing

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 DMWP DMWPar pollination pollinator skipper yellow flower
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This female Little Glassy Wing is feeding on nectar from flower heads of Polymnia uvedalia Linnaeus (= Bearsfoot, Yellow Leafcup, Yellow-flowered Leafcup) (Asteraceae).

E. M. B.


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