Photo 98664894, (c) Steve Ansell, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Steve Ansell

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What

Zephyr Comma (Polygonia gracilis ssp. zephyrus)

Observer

steveansell

Date

October 3, 2020 03:50 PM PDT

Description

A walk up the ski slopes to the summit of Mt Strachan today yielded 14 Zephrys, 2 Green Commas, 1 Hydaspe Fritillary, 1 Painted Lady and a Woodland Skipper. Each Zephyr typically had its own patch of flowers that it was feeding on, but to double check I wasn't seeing any of the same ones again, I "fingerprinted" them all from the photos - quite a range of patterns to the black & gold spots!

Several (mostly sorted on the right half of the collage) had minimal gold and looked rather like Satyrs, but the two-tone grey underside was verified on each.

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