Stephanie Zembillas, who posted this photo on Twitter and another on Tumblr, had this to say: “I wanted a picture of a moth, but an anole wanted lunch. We made a compromise.”
Professor of Biology and Director of the Living Earth Collaborative at Washington University in Saint Louis. I've spent my entire professional career studying anoles and have discovered that the more I learn about anoles, the more I realize I don't know.
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The antennae suggest its a skipper butterfly (family Hesperiidae).
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Entomologist Dr. Wenhua Lu, of The Conservation Agency, opines: Yes, definitely a “skipper.” Family Hesperidae. But whether a skipper is really a butterfly is debatable….