Jun 262014
On my Piney Woods Church Road walk this afternoon, I glimpsed a small and rather evasive gray-brown butterfly, pausing to rest for a moment on one leaf, then darting off to another one if I tried to get too close. Still, with some patience, I finally managed to take this photograph. The butterfly is a Carolina Satyr (Hermeuptychia sosybius), one of the most common of the satyr butterflies in the Southeast. The Carolina Satyr frequent shaded woodland areas but also ventures out onto suburban lawns.
