Harvester is definitely a classy, ultra-cool butterfly. These petite beauties are rarely encountered, but can be rather tame (as you can see). The caterpillars are carnivorous, feeding on the woolly aphids that suck on beech and alder trees.
This one, lapping up salt from Dave Powell's finger, was photographed in Buncombe Co., NC, 7/7/2002, one of seven we saw that day.
