New Hanover Co., NC 8/12/07.

Fairly common in wet areas near the coast, this large, slow flying skipper has a distinctive pale cross-shaped pattern in the middle of the dark brown hindwing.

New Hanover Co., NC 8/12/07.

Dare Co., NC 10/2/05.

New Hanover Co., NC 8/24/02.

The cross-shaped pale patch on the hindwing is distinctive.

Brunswick Co., NC 8/28/04.

On 9/26/2004 a small colony was found at the Cape Fear River in southeastern Chatham Co., NC - a first for the Piedmont. I found this fresh male in the same location two weeks later.

Chatham Co., NC 10/9/04.

Female in the clutches of a crab spider.

Dare Co., NC 9/8/01.