Bronzed copper butterfly and honeybee forage on Sullivants Milkweed, Marion County, Ohio, USA

Sullivants milkweed (Asclepias sullivantii) is a prairie milkweed hat is uncommon in Ohio but extremely abundant at the Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area in Marion and Wyandot Counties. Although honeybees are overwhelmingly predominant floral visitors, every so often a butterfly comes to sip nectar from the flowers. Here is a bronzed copper (Lycaena hyllus). Note at the lower left, in and out of view, a 2nd honeybee is trapped, as one or more legs are caught in the slit that is the opening of the stigmatic chamber.