{"id":135575,"date":"2024-10-14T02:53:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T07:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=135575"},"modified":"2024-10-13T15:53:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T20:53:41","slug":"fiery-skipper-butterfly-photos-other-things-with-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2024\/10\/14\/fiery-skipper-butterfly-photos-other-things-with-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiery Skipper Butterfly Photos – Other Things With Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back at the start of October, I took lots of Fiery Skipper butterfly photos. I am just now getting around to sharing a few of these lovely skipper butterflies.<\/p>\n

\"FieryFiery Skipper butterfly nectaring on sedum blossoms \u2013 Canon R7, handheld, f8, 1\/8000, ISO 1600, -0.3 EV, Canon 100-400mm at 400mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Fiery Skippers are small skippers, so getting close to them is the best way to get frame-filling images of these bright butterflies. Fortunately, they aren’t too bothered by people, which made photographing them easier for me.<\/p>\n

\"FieryFiery Skipper butterfly in autumn \u2013 Canon R7, handheld, f8, 1\/8000, ISO 1600, -0.3 EV, Canon 100-400mm at 400mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Like many of the other butterflies I photographed in early October, these skippers were nectaring on blooming pink sedum. Sedum seems to be a huge attractant for butterflies, bees, wasps, and other insects.<\/p>\n

The skippers were numerous, and I still have a few of them to identify, but I already knew the identity of the Fiery Skippers<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"FieryFiery Skipper butterfly among flowering sedum \u2013 Canon R7, handheld, f8, 1\/8000, ISO 1600, -0.3 EV, Canon 100-400mm at 400mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Fiery Skippers have a wide range in North and South America, from Canada to Argentina. In the northern hemisphere, the butterfly may migrate north in summer months to the northern United States and southern Ontario, Canada.\u00a0 One even made it to New Brunswick, Canada!<\/p>\n

\"FieryFiery Skipper butterfly in Arkansas \u2013 Canon R7, handheld, f8, 1\/8000, ISO 1600, -0.3 EV, Canon 100-400mm at 400mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

I had lots of fun photographing these Fiery Skippers, Monarchs, Painted Ladies, bees, other skippers, and Harvestmen on the flowering sedums. The sedums are almost finished blooming now, and the number of butterflies and insects visiting them has decreased.<\/p>\n

It pays off to have flowering plants in the garden or yard. More insects mean more birds. More birds mean more joy!<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a><\/span> to see my insect and spider galleries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back at the start of October, I took lots of Fiery Skipper butterfly photos. 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