Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Silver Spotted Skipper Pupa (and other stages), 1 by debnes_dfw_tx

debnes_dfw_tx wrote:
Just in from the garden:
Had a Silver spotted Skipper make a chrysalis here. I had searched all over for info on how they do it, and made a special cage. With very clean potting soil, I made a shallow fresh leaf litter container. One of the 3 skippers pupated.
In this thread I will post the phases of s s skipper I have witnessed and photographed.

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Notice the detached head shell. I wondered what happened to that crazy skipper face (see following photos), when they became an adult skipper.