I've often voiced frustration and confusion over a group of pretty little lookalike butterflies that are lumped under the Hairstreak congregation. But since they've been abundant this summer, and since I have two new important tools to document them—my 85mm micro lens and uber-butterfly-man Jeffrey Glassberg's new A Swift Guide to Butterflies of North America—I been making a genuine effort to master the identification of the Gossamerwings, as the lepidopteran family Lycaenidae is commonly known. This one, "captured" while it worked the Garlic Chives flowers, is an appropriately named Red-banded Hairstreak, and it's one of the first I've felt comfortable identifying. The obvious wide red band is pretty diagnostic, and some of the lesser field marks that Glassberg points to—the modest amount of red over the large black spot, and the splash of red over the purplish spot—make this a fairly easy and confidence-building call. Calycopis cecrops is a good Hairstreak to know, since it's a southerner that is making increasing inroads into our area and is now a fairly common sight.