Posts Tagged: Erynnis tristis

Mournful Butterfly

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.--Nathaniel Hawthorne Maybe not "alight upon you," but stay long enough for you to admire it.Such was the case...

Mournful Butterfly

MOURNFUL BUTTERFLY, Erynnis tristis (Hesperiidae), spreads its wings on lavender. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The Eyes Have It

THE EYES of the Mournful or Sad Dusky-Wing, Erynnis tristis (Hesperiidae) are vivid in this photo. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Golden Pollen

GOLDEN POLLEN glitters on the head of a Mournful Dusky-Wing. Butterflies are often overlooked as pollinators. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

E. T., Where Are You?

Call it the "Mournful Dusky-Wing" or the "Sad Dusky-Wing." Call it what you will, but the Erynnis tristis, a member of the skipper butterfly family (Hesperiidae), is neither mournful nor sad when it's nectaring lavender. The skipper, distinguishable...

Mournful Dusky-Wing

MOURNFUL DUSKY-WING butterfly nectaring lavender. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Tip Top

CAUGHT ON THE FLY, a female Erynnis tristis visits lavender. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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