Thursday, June 25, 2015

Santa Ana NWR, 6/25/15

We've had some rain since my last post and the sun was out today so I made a trip over to Santa Ana NWR and saw some interesting stuff.  Best was a Rim Rim that zoomed past me and only allowed a glimpse through the camera.  It's the first I've seen at Santa Ana since the flood of 2010.  But this is the first wet year we've had since then so maybe we'll get more of them.



I saw both a male and a female Silver Emperor and the female oviposited on a Granjeno right in front of me. So it looks like more will be on the way.




Malachites are starting to pop up everywhere.


I saw four Banded Peacocks, some of them patrolling a section of the tour road.


A damp spot held four Cassius Blues.


After not seeing any Clytie Ministreaks for months, I saw several today.


A fresh Common Mestra.


Finally a fresh male Mexican Bluewing after seeing plenty of beat up females lately.



  • Giant Swallowtail 3
  • Great Southern White 5
  • Giant White 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Large Orange Sulphur 3
  • Lyside Sulphur 15
  • Little Yellow 2
  • Mimosa Yellow 5
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 3
  • Dusky-blue Groundstreak 3
  • Clytie Ministreak 4
  • Cassius Blue 4
  • Rounded Metalmark 1
  • American Snout 10
  • Gulf Fritillary 2
  • Zebra Heliconian 2
  • Bordered Patch 25
  • Texan Crescent 1
  • Phaon Crescent 8
  • Pearl Crescent 5
  • Question Mark 1
  • White Peacock 5
  • Banded Peacock 4
  • Malachite 2
  • Mexican Bluewing 2
  • Common Mestra 6
  • Red Rim 1
  • Tawny Emperor 1
  • Silver Emperor 2
  • Carolina Satyr 5
  • Queen 1
  • Brown Longtail 1
  • Texas Powdered-Skipper 1
  • Sickle-winged Skipper 8
  • White Checkered-Skipper 3
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper25
  • Laviana White-Skipper 15
  • Turk's-cap White-Skipper 1
  • Julia's Skipper 1
  • Fawn-spotted Skipper 5
  • Clouded Skipper 5
  • Southern Broken-Dash 2
  • Common Mellana 1
  • Eufala Skipper 2