Searching my Media Library of images, I stopped here. A butterfly so endangered, that used to be found from Maine to Florida, and now exists solely in a broad meadow in a Pennsylvania military base. The Regal Fritillary. A Super Rare butterfly.
Just back from a long walk with Petra, I find myself reminiscing. What other super rare butterflies have I met these last two year in the U.S.?
Georgia satyr (Georgia & Florida). Bog Copper (New York State). Creole Pearly-eye (Georgia). Salt Marsh Skipper (Georgia). Little Metalmark (Georgia). Eastern Pygmy Blue (Georgia). Zebra Heliconian (Georgia). Juniper Hairstreak (Georgia). Cassius Blue (Georgia).
Folks ask why I spend so much time traveling to Georgia? The answer to that lies above. Trail savvy Georgians have generously invited me to join them and seek hard to find butterflies, and have gone out of their way to insure that our efforts are successful.
All this whets my appetite for 2017! How much do I look forward to continuing my hunt for embattled butterflies? Spread your hands as far apart as you can. That much! Any tentative objectives? Yep. Georgia. New York. Maine. Ohio & Vancouver Island, Canada.
Missing from my list? North Carolina, West Virginia, Virginia, Florida & New Jersey. Folks in these states may just be too busy to find the time . . . . No matter, ’17 may well be a bust-out year!
Jeff
Winged Beauty Butterflies 
your energy and expertise is an inspiration to all of us who are so limited in our knowledge….seeing your captures of the ordinary and extraordinary allows the rest of us to celebrate and plan our own treks to discover a “new” wing! thank you again for leading the charge!
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And I have come to Learn that it in the whole is a Bifecta! Extraordinary butterflies are sought, and sometimes found, as well as Extraordinary people, as a certain ‘Virginia’ mentioned in Embattled Butterflies Seen?
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