Zabulon Skipper found in Vermont

[kmcfarland]

It took less than a month for Terri Armata, one of our star butterfly atlas volunteers, to find and document the 119th butterfly species for Vermont and her 4th state record. On August 22nd she located a fresh, male Zabulon Skipper (Lon zabulon ) in an unmowed field full of Red Clover just outside of Bennington, Vermont and reported it to e-Butterfly while surveying butterflies for the Second Vermont Butterfly Atlas.

Read more at Zabulon Skipper Discovered in Vermont | Vermont Atlas of Life

[madberg]

That is so cool! I just saw my first Zabulon skippers last month, but not in Vermont—on Star Island off the coast of Portsmouth, NH. I’d never seen them there before. They were definitely breeding!