Eastern Comma Butterfly Polygonia comma.
Taken in College Park, Maryland, Friday, 30 March, a serendipitous shot that the photographer got when she was trying to snap a cardinal who refused to come out and be seen.
Source: Karen Davis.
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Hurray for butterflies! Especially tough, early-spring butterflies!
I recall my parent's yard in Alexandria, VA in the 1970s being thick with a weedly little mint called Henbit during late March and into April. Eastern Tailed Blues would stop by for a nectar meal, a welcome sign of spring. One of the nice aspects of living in Houston is that butterflies fly virtually year-round, but of course with diminished numbers and diversity during the winter. Henbit also grows in Houston and up into the Llano Uplift of Texas.
The back fuzz and attennae make it look like a tiny bat with huge butterfly wings... ;-)