I clearly haven't been getting out enough. Went for a walk in the wildflower meadow behind the retirement complex in our neighborhood, and saw several elderly buckeyes flapping around. This isn't totally earthshaking, because technically we're in the range of Junonia coenia, but it's sufficiently uncommon at this latitude to make a sighting something special. The fact that I didn't notice any until the end of September indicates that I haven't been playing with the bugs as much as I should.

Shame on me.