Small Skipper on Knapweed. Thymelicus sylvestris…
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Small Skipper on Knapweed. Thymelicus sylvestris. Underwing
Or possibly the Essex Skipper, Thymelicus lineola.
These little butterflies were ubiquitous here, flitting around in the tall grasses and mostly sipping nectar from hard-heads, Centaurea / knapweed..
These little butterflies were ubiquitous here, flitting around in the tall grasses and mostly sipping nectar from hard-heads, Centaurea / knapweed..
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I'd be inclined towards the Small Skipper: The difference in maily in the antennae, in the Small Skipper these are orange-brown, whereas the Essex Skipper's appear to have been dipped in black ink (info from the East Midlands Butterfly Conservation website).
I would agree that it is a Small skipper and not an Essex skipper. The accepted way of telling them apart is by the antennae, especially on the underside: the Essex skipper has very well defined jet-black tips to the antennae, "as if they had been dipped in ink".
Good video here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfeX6guLND4
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