I first saw this butterfly with its wings folded, I thought it was a Spring Azure.
Later, when I saw the pattern on its open wings, I realized it was a Summer Azure. It’s rare to see one of these butterflies settle with open wings; this butterfly sat for some time like this.Identification resources:
- West Central Georgia Butterflies by Michael Beohm: Summer Azure (Celastrina neglecta)- BugGuide: Summer Azure (Celastrina neglecta)Click the image to view a larger image
Apart from the Buckeyes, Fiery Skippers are the most numerous butterflies on the butterfly bush at the moment. At least a dozen are on the bush at any one time. They’re the first to arrive in the morning – before it has really warmed up – and the last to leave in the evening, long after the sun has sunk behind the woods across the road.
Occasionally one will pose with its wings open, but not very often.
This is it’s usual pose, wings folded. They do have the prettiest eyes.Identification resources:
- West Central Georgia Butterflies by Michael Beohm: Fiery Skipper (Hylephila phyleus)
- BugGuide: Fiery Skipper (Hylephila phyleus)
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This Red Admiral was the second butterfly I saw in a sunny patch on the path down to the woods during the cool days in late spring. Another butterfly I would not have seen if it had not been for these unusually cool days. 
This butterfly spent more time with its wings in an open display.Identification resources:- West Central Georgia Butterflies by Michael Beohm: Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta)- BugGuide: Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta)
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In late spring, we had a few cool days – at least is was quite cool in the open woods behind the house. The trees hadn’t leafed in thickly and there were patches of sunlight on the path down to the creek.
This Eastern Comma (summer form) had selected one of these sunny patches to alight and warm itself. Its wings were closed most of the time but occasionally it would flick them quickly open and closed again. When I disturbed it by moving too close, it would fly off, circle around and land again in the same patch of sunlight. If it hadn’t been for the cold days and the sunny patches on the path, I probably would never have seen this butterfly.
Identification resources:- West Central Georgia Butterflies by Michael Beohm: Eastern Comma (Polygonia comma)- BugGuide: Eastern Comma (Polygonia comma)Click the image to view a larger image
The Discolored Renia appears to be the most common moth in the woods at our place in the spring…
They are interesting moths. They look like tiny Concorde airplanes. So well camouflaged, I usually don’t see them before they take off and fly a little distance although in a less-streamlined manner than a Concorde. In almost 100% of instances they land facing back towards they way them came.
Identification resource:- Bug guide: Discolored Renia moth (Renia discoloralis)Click on the image to view a larger image
I first saw this butterfly with its wings folded, I thought it was a Spring Azure.
Later, when I saw the pattern on its open wings, I realized it was a Summer Azure. It’s rare to see one of these butterflies settle with open wings; this butterfly sat for some time like this.
Occasionally one will pose with its wings open, but not very often. 
This is it’s usual pose, wings folded. They do have the prettiest eyes.
A mail box (in the middle) and a couple of paper boxes (left hand side, county paper; right hand side, city paper). Right?
Wrong. Well, it’s true that the middle box IS a mail box - a functional mail box. But we don’t get the county paper anymore because it really doesn’t have any news of interest. And the folks who deliver the city paper have long since forgotten that the city paper is supposed be put in the city paper box. We grumble about the fact that the folks who deliver the city paper seem to have forgotten that there is a paper box when they throw our paper in the general direction of the drive. Perhaps, at the moment, that’s a blessing. At the moment, it has a much more noble purpose. It is serving as a nest box for a Carolina Wren. W and J have seen the wren bomb out of the box when disturbed. We don’t know how many eggs she laid but there are three chicks.
Alive and well and…
with great gaping maws when anything that might deliver a meal approaches.
The first time, I spooked one in the woods and it landed on a plant in an opening where W and J had dug a pool to encourage frogs to breed. This butterfly spent a few minutes on the plant before to flew off into the woods again.
The second butterfly I was able to photograph was in the woods. Again I spooked it and it landed on the trunk of a nearby tree. I was able to make my way through the brush and take several photos.
This butterfly spent more time with its wings in an open display.
This Eastern Comma (summer form) had selected one of these sunny patches to alight and warm itself. Its wings were closed most of the time but occasionally it would flick them quickly open and closed again. When I disturbed it by moving too close, it would fly off, circle around and land again in the same patch of sunlight. If it hadn’t been for the cold days and the sunny patches on the path, I probably would never have seen this butterfly.
They are interesting moths. They look like tiny Concorde airplanes. So well camouflaged, I usually don’t see them before they take off and fly a little distance although in a less-streamlined manner than a Concorde. In almost 100% of instances they land facing back towards they way them came. 