Two of Our Smallest Butterflies

Eastern Tailed-Blue (Cupido comyntas). Nice to see the pale blue here, for it usually perches like this:This is a male. Females are browner. I must say, my field guide suggests a much darker blue, but the harsh sunlight here is bleaching everything out. The tiny trailing “tails” can be seen emerging just below the lower orange spot.Here’s another specimen.These are roughly the size of a dime. And this is one of the duskywings, Horace’s (Erynnis horatius) I think. Very similar to Juvenal’s Duskywing. Here’s another photograph of these small puzzlers; much depends on the light.