We are pleased to announce the winner of our Monday Nature Mystery, Rusty Moran! (Please email your snail mail address and preference for a hat or tote bag to [email protected]).
Congratulations to Rusty for identifying the Tawny-edged Skipper (Polites themistocles). Skippers are very difficult to tell apart! According to the North American Butterfly Association, on males of this species bright orange extends from the leading edge of the forewing to thick, non-tapering stigma (a patch of scent scales), which is parallel to leading edge of the forewing and separates the orange along the leading edge from the dark brown remainder of wing (which includes a single rectangular orange spot at outer end of the stigma). The female’s forewing is overall dark brown, sometimes with a tawny leading edge, and includes 3 pale "bracelet" spots" toward the wingtip, 2 or 3 conspicuous pale spots across the wing, and a pale cell spot. In both sexes the hindwing is unmarked brown, sometimes with a slightly paler center.
Last Week's Mystery: Tawny-edged Skipper (Polites themistocles). Photo: Judy Gallagher
Each Monday we’ll post a new photo and identify the previous week’s winner. They’ll receive an ASNV hat or tote bag.
Be sure to post your answer on our Facebook page @AudubonVA under the Monday Mystery post...do not reply to this email with your guess! We only accept entries from our Facebook page, not via email.
Please remember to write the common name, being mindful of hyphens, uppercase and lowercase letters and always include the Latin name in parentheses. To learn more about bird names click here.
Who is this? Photo: Randy Streufert
This week’s Mystery: Who is this?
Post your guess (please list both common name and Latin name) on our Facebook page @AudubonVA under this week's Monday Nature Mystery. Remember, we only accept entries from our Facebook page, not via email!
Good luck!
-Audubon Society of Northern Virginia
Please note that we only accept entries on our Facebook page where they are date- and time-stamped. Remember that, if you need to correct your entry, you should make a new posting rather than correcting the old one so that we get a correct time stamp for your correction. Winners are limited to one prize every 90 days, maximum 2 per person.
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