Today's Butterflies

Here is a Monarch on the New York Ironweed.

Here she is laying an egg on the milkweed.

Singles Bar.  The male Zabulon skipper on the right is more interested in attracting the female just above him, than he is in the thistle.

Buckeye.

Pearl crescent.  Don't let the photo fool you - as this one is half the size of the one above.