So cool! photographed the same old schoolhouse from another angle on May 30!

fingers soooo crossed…….

Seriously….

Can I send you my address to send the extras?😂

If i have a vote I would go for the male sabuleti at rabbitbrush.

Looked again, yeah first photo is a female O. sylvanoides.

I always love seeing skipper pics! The one at the purple flower is a female Ochlodes sylvanoides, I think. The second photo is of a male Polites sabuleti.

We discuss this at the end of the paper linked in the post. In a nutshell, wingless females are less able to disperse away from the larval foodplants, which can be important very early or late in the season when there are few days for adult activity, & in cases of highly localized habitats.

These things are tiny; the wingspan of a male is about the same as the width of my thumbnail. And they're active in late October - late November so are easily missed...

Thanks Andy! Hopefully you can find additional populations come late October early November...?

Hmm, I recall a Zenodoxus canescens mating pair you once posted that piqued my interest- also a late-flying species; if that is what you are referring to it is in Sesiidae not Crambidae.

yeah, might be a zabulon...

Do you mean Least Skipper? The photo is of a Zabulon Skipper, not Least.