Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Yardening Spring 2013, 1 by coleup

coleup wrote:
And our bugs are gifts to our birds that whole Circle of Life cycling round.

Sally, thanks to your link above I have identified the buterflies I saw as Common Ringlets. They emerge in the south Mar-May and eat grasses and their host plants are clumps of matted grasses. They are often found along roadways or fields. Found pictures of adults but not the caterpillers yet. Maybe I'll start a Life List of butterflies and Moths to pair with that of birds.