Sachem on Maximilian sunflower

From August 28th on the grounds of the Elisabet Ney Museum here’s the head of a Maximilian sunflower, Helianthus maximiliani, and on it what I take to be the smallish skipper known as a sachem, Atalopedes campestris.

© 2014 Steven Schwartzman

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