Yesterday I watched these three beauties playing around a fan socket we just put in on the porch we're building. They stayed over 30 min examining, tasting and going in and out of the enclosure. What are they doing? Also can anyone please ID them? Thanks.

Looks like variegated fritillaries to me - but @Mellielong can tell you for sure. And I probably misspelled it.
Have no idea what the attraction is on your porch; never saw anything like it. Cool photos though!

Not the Variegated Fritillary, but it is a Fritillary. Hard to tell because they look so much alike and I can't tell the size. The most common ones I see in WV are the Meadow Frit and the Great Spangled Frit. Not sure what they were doing up there. Unless maybe one was a female trying to hide from pursuing males?

I don't know, Melanie, but all three were back again today flying around the yard and trees together.