Yesterday Robin and Troy fround a couple of Gray Ministreaks along with lots of Clytie Ministreaks at the Old Hildalgo Pumphouse. So I ran over today there hoping to see them. However I got distracted by this little brown skipper with a couple of white dots on the underside of its hindwing. I had it for just a few seconds but manged to fire off some shots. Wow! my first Double-dotted Skipper. Well, not so fast. After I got home, I looked at the pictures and noticed the white costal dashes of a Clouded Skipper. Upon close examination it appears the double dots are actually on the underside of the forewing and are showing though a tear in the underwing. At least that's the way I interpret it. So it's just a Clouded Skipper?
There were literally dozens of tiny Clytie Ministreaks to pick through. Some were quite guadily marked.
After a while Robin and Troy showed up along with Bill and Dottie and Robin had me on a Gray Ministreak in not time at all.
Then Troy got us all excited with this mystery hairstreak. It was up in the sun and acting very un-Clytie-like. But I think it was just another Clytie. At that point I decided it was too hot and headed for home.
