Frit at nightlight

By day, the Great Spangled Fritillary procession, the best I've ever seen, continues, although it's starting to slow down a bit. Of course, given how little time I dare to be outside in the daylight hours, these are just quick observations, not real data, but suffice it to say that there are still plenty of GSFs out and about, and they're often frequenting patches of wild violets, their preferred egg-laying site and the main sustenance for their caterpillars. (Curiously, the larvae won't develop real appetites until next spring.) But I'm no longer just spotting the butterflies during the day. Often, they've been putting in an appearance in the evening and hanging around the kitchen porch lights. Typically, the lepidopteran visitors after dark are moths of every shape and size, but this rather tattered, though still beautiful, GSF has decided to join the night shift. Maybe it likes the warmth of the light bulb.