I woke up to see this little face in my kitchen.

The Sunflower Farm in my last POTD http://www.pbase.com/britestar/image/168109304

allows visitors to cut and take home a Sunflower. Suggested donation for a cut Sunflower is $1 but is not absolutely mandatory. There is a small kettle (along with a nice sign telling newcomers what they are seeing) where the parking lot meets the Sunflower fields. That parking lot was put in by the farmer (at his own expense and labor)when the County complained a several years back about hundreds of visitors just pulling off & unsafely parking along the county road. Again, visiting the Sunflower farmer is free and attracts people from all over the world. Although most of the really big Sunflower fields are in Western Kansas, this one in the East is a top tourist attraction for the state of Kansas.

Each year, I usually cut a Sunflower or so to take home & leave a small donation.

This year, the Sunflowers unfortunately were especially "buggy". It was impossible to find any flower without insects feeding. However, I did find a couple with only a couple of bugs (that I could see). Those seemed in decent shape; so I removed the bugs and took them home. Or at least, I thought that I had removed all the insects. Guess I was wrong...

I don't know how I missed seeing something as "big" as this tiny skipper. I'm also surprised that he willingly came home with me. On one of the Sunflowers, he greeted me this morning in my kitchen. Content on the Sunflower, he just stayed there all day until I finally put the cut Sunflowers outside because I didn't want bugs in my house. After discovering the Skipper, I also spotted a pair of teeny tiny, breeding oval insects of unknown identification. They were so tiny that they easily disappeared into the floral hills & valleys in the center of the Sunflower.

FYI, skippers are closely related to butterflies. Most are quite small.