Fiery Skipper

Fiery Skipper

I've been seeing this small orange and brown butterfly in the butterfly garden in our front yard, but didn't know what it was.  Because it's fairly small and moves so fast, I wasn't able to get a good look at it, let alone a picture of it, until today.

However, now that I've managed to get a photo of it, our trusty San Diego Natural History Museum comes through again with the information that this is a Fiery Skipper, one of the most common butterflies in the area.

These butterflies are "abundant around residential lawns".  Our neighbors provide plenty of the Bermuda Grass the Fiery Skipper larvae favor, and we're happy to provide the plants the adult butterflies like for nectar.