Little skipper on a buckwheat flower head
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I spotted this lovely little male common checkered-skipper pyrgus communis on one of the buckwheat plant flower heads.
It is a very lovely butterfly with a wing span of just 1 to 1 1/2 inches.
The fuzzy body is a striking blue-gray.