Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper (Amblyscirtes aesculapius)
This skippers distinctive appearance makes it difficult to confuse with any other butterfly. In NW Georgia it is fairly common in appropriate habitat-moist woods with associated cane. Two broods-summer and fall.
Berry College
Floyd Co., Georgia 8/02/2005
This is what you sometimes get when a butterfly decides to take flight while you are photographing. Seen at Arrowhead WMA in Floyd Co., Georgia on 7/24/2005.
Same individual preflight.
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