Friday, July 20, 2018

Hairstreak Butterfly

Here is some kind of Hairstreak on lesser daisy fleabane blossoms in my field.

2018-7-20. Hairstreak
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I think it's a Banded Hairstreak. As in the case of the Duskywing, it's appearing at the right time but the wrong county; however, my butterfly book shows it in both Porter and Newton Counties, so what's to stop it from flying over the Lake County line? Its larval hosts are walnuts and oaks; plenty of oaks around here, anyway.

2 comments:

Rachel said...

It looks like a piece of chocolate!

Ainsworthiana said...

Hm, now that you mention it ... :)