Finding a Wetland Skipper Butterfly at the Edge of a Wet Southern Woods

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Skipper Butterfly at Yazoo National Wildlife Refuge, MS

Yazoo National Wildlife Refuge was an excellent Mississippi destination for photographing butterflies. This May 2010 day did not disappoint.

Poanes yehl is a wetland skipper and that’s where we found it, at the edge of wet southern woods.

It took a bit of research for me, unaccustomed as I am to southern U.S. butterfly species.

As with most skippers this Yehl is an active nectarer.

Mississippi abounded with wildlife and Yazoo NWR kept me busy with Oohs and Aahs!

Jeffrey