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| | European Skipperling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | The power-line jogs east along the border, and crosses a big, weedy gravel pit that fronts on D Street. |
 | | Since it overwinters as eggs, a rare condition among skippers, it can easily be transported in hay, so that spontaneous irruptions can occur independent of the advancing front of colonization. |
 | | I consider the European Skipperling an essentially positive addition to the Western Washington butterfly fauna, which, as most know, is fairly impoverished. |
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