Friday, July 14, 2006

Another Butterfly

taxiles skipper butterfly
A taxiles skipper butterfly (Poanes taxiles) on a wildflower whose name I don't know. The Sandia Ranger District (of the Cibola National Forest) was finally opened last weekend; it had been closed for eight weeks due to extreme fire danger.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The plant looks like beebalm, also known as bergamot and oreganillo (Monarda fistulosa). Great photos on this site!