Hi Skeeter, thanks for ID on the skipper and hairstreak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interesting Insects « Fairegarden] Reference

Veronica ‘Sunny Border Blue’ has attracted a hairstreak butterfly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Year End Wrap Up 2008-Part Two « Fairegarden] Reference

The next one, also photographed in Seneca Creek State Park was easier to identify: Strymon melinus gray hairstreak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference

As was mentioned in this post, one of butterflies I photographed last weekend was a Strymon melinus gray hairstreak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference

Its leaves play occasional host to the larvae of viceroy, striped hairstreak, and Canadian tiger swallowtail butterflies.    From Wordnik.com.  [LOW-MANAGEMENT ALLEGHENY SERVICEBERRY FOR BEAUTY ALL 4 SEASONS] Reference

In the past three years two other species, the holly blue and purple hairstreak, have been spotted for the first time on National Trust properties in Scotland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Weatherwatch: Global warming is evident in Scotland] Reference

Wildlife spotted in East SussexButterflies (13) meadow brown; hedge brown; speckled wood; essex skipper; small skipper; large skipper; comma; small tortoiseshell; large white; small white; green-veined white; purple hairstreak; white admiral.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to get back to nature when camping] Reference

When Matthew Oates, the National Trust's roving butterfly expert, first described this affliction, it sounded quite pleasant: by August, butterfly lovers are so knackered, all they can do is sit in an armchair and wait for the last butterfly of summer, the brown hairstreak, to descend from an ash tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [How I became a lepidopterist] Reference

We did not see any blues or hairstreaks (well, I saw a tiny Ceraunus blue and a gray hairstreak after the group had left) but we did see several other interesting insects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum Blogs] Reference

The Woodland Trust's survey of the area's wildlife revealed a number of species which could benefit from the creation of new woodland including Natterer's and long eared bats, white-letter hairstreak and purple emperor butterflies and red-listed birds including bullfinches and song thrushes.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Communities on serpentine are particularly rich in endemic plants and invertebrates, including leather oak (Quercus durata), interior silktassel (Garrya condonii), milkwort streptanthus (Streptanthus polygaloides), and Muir’s hairstreak (Mitoura nelsoni muiri).    From Wordnik.com.  [California interior chaparral and woodlands] Reference

This is a hairstreak of some kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interesting Insects « Fairegarden] Reference

This is a gray hairstreak Strymon melinus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference

They had passed through Eastry, a village four miles from Deal, when Frank exclaimed, "There is a green hairstreak.    From Wordnik.com.  [By Sheer Pluck, a Tale of the Ashanti War] Reference

100 of Thorne's hairstreak butterflies remain after a wildfire wiped out most of the population in 2003.    From Wordnik.com.  [Courthouse News Service] Reference

Green hairstreak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News Breaking News and Current News from the UK and World Telegraph] Reference