Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: DAILY BUTTERFLIES Page 37, 1 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
Lily...I believe that's a Red-Banded Hairstreak (Calycopis cecrops). We get a similar looking one in south Texas called a Dusky-blue Groundstreak (Calycopis isobean). Sure would be nice to raise and release some but finding larva in leaf debris / rotting leaves is harder than looking for a needle in a haystack! :o)

Loonie - thanks for posting the Horace's Duskywing photo. We get those in Texas but I'd not seen one until I came to Georgia - they seem fairly common where I'm visiting.

~ Cat
(Temporarily in Brunswick, GA)

Photo of Dusky-blue Groundstreak :o)