hairstreak

The species - Shoumatoff hairstreak - was named for him.

The rare Edward's hairstreak butterfly has also been observed.

A Black Hairstreak has been spotted, and it's causing quite a flutter.

While eating, they counted a gray hairstreak - the only one they saw that day.

The site is also important for its butterflies and recorded are such species as Green Hairstreak.

We're on the trail of the Black Hairstreak.

Lord Black Hairstreak is the antagonist of the story.

It is also home to a large number of breeding birds and is an important site for the green hairstreak butterfly.

This tailless hairstreak is brownish gray on the upper side of the wings.

The undersides are a lighter brown with a thin white line, the 'hairstreak' which gives this group of butterflies their name.

Here is a list of host plants used by the Juniper Hairstreak:

It was another hairstreak, this one marked with the thin white zigzag that gives it its name.

This area is noted for butterflies in the summer, and in August the purple hairstreak will be on the wing.

The 85 species of moths and butterflies includes the White-letter Hairstreak.

The White-letter Hairstreak butterfly is recorded at this site.

The Juniper Hairstreak has many subspecies or races, some of which may even be separate species.

The adult Silky Hairstreak has a wingspan of 28mm.

Some other hairstreaks may be a light blue to a light brown, but not the silver-banded hairstreak.

The live oak is the larval host plant for the hairstreak butterfly and oakworm moth.

Badgers have excavated several setts and white letter and purple hairstreak butterflies are seen.

The Silky Hairstreak was first described by Emile Blanchard in 1848.

The Silver-banded Hairstreak has 2-3 broods per year.

Nine species of dragonfly and damselfly have been recorded on the reserve, along with the Green Hairstreak butterfly.

Hessel's Hairstreak a species of butterfly that is dependent on the white cedar has been spotted at the park.

Uncommon species of butterflies, like the Edwards' hairstreak and the Appalachian brown, appeared as if from nowhere to feed on the plants.