Rayetta's Butterflies - Strymon melinus

It is about time. Finally, some of my butterflies have turned up including a new one for the CB, today. Hmmm. Well, (Strymon melinus) has doubtless been to the CB before today, but this is the first one I have espied, photographed and identified. Yikes! This is a very small butterfly, but also very tame. So it is 3- -1- on the Rayetta scales. Oddly, the bees and flies seem wary of it. This very small butterfly seemed to have feeding preference over the honey bees. Go figure! Yippee.