Long-tailed Skipper - Another View

 "My wonder button is being pushed all the time." 

- Carl Sagan

From my first sighting of a long-tailed skipper on 08-22-24 

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Long-tailed Skipper Butterfly

 "Life is a voyage of discovery." 

~ Unknown

My first Long-tailed Skipper Butterfly

08-22-2024

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White Checkered Skipper

Seen at Kentland Farms - Blacksburg, Virginia

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn. 

- Mary Catherine Bateson

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Aptitude To Fly

A power of Butterfly must be - 

The Aptitude to fly 

Meadows of Majesty concedes 

And easy Sweeps of Sky -

~  Emily Dickinson

I need an ID on this little guy.  

This one is a first for me. 
An Eastern Pine Elfin perhaps?