Sunday, August 27, 2017

National Butterfly Center, 8/27/17

With a strong westerly wind blowing courtesy of Hurricane Harvey, I thought maybe something different might be found at the National Butterfly Center.  Bug of the day had to go to this sharp Ornythion Swallowtail.


The parade of Statira Sulphurs continues.





Finally got a Many-banded Daggerwing for the year.


It been a good summer for Dingy Purplewings.


Whenever I find Desert Checkered-Skipper at the NBC they are always in the sunken garden.


Brown-banded and White-patched Skippers are always worth a photo.



I think this is a Goatweed Leafwing.


So it turned out to be a fine afternoon with forty species though I don't think any were due to the westerly wind.
  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 8
  • Ornythion Swallowtail 1
  • Southern Dogface 10
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Large Orange Sulphur 15
  • Statira Sulphur 5
  • Lyside Sulphur 80
  • Little Yellow 5
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 3
  • Western Pygmy-Blue 2
  • American Snout 50
  • Gulf Fritillary 8
  • Julia Heliconian 2
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Bordered Patch 3
  • Vesta Crescent 2
  • Phaon Crescent 8
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Mexican Bluewing 8
  • Dingy Purplewing 5
  • Tropical Leafwing 1
  • Goatweed Leafwing 1
  • Tawny Emperor 50
  • Queen 80
  • Soldier 5
  • Brown Longtail 2
  • Brown-banded Skipper 1
  • White-patched Skipper 3
  • White Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 8
  • Desert Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Laviana White-Skipper 5
  • Clouded Skipper 3
  • Fiery Skipper 6
  • Whirlabout 1
  • Southern Broken-Dash 8
  • Celia's Roadside-Skipper 1
  • Eufala Skipper 4

Tuesday, August 1, 2017

Statira Sulphur at Progreso Lakes, 8/1/17

A couple of days ago I finally had a few butterflies in the yard and so I started running up a list. About midday I noticed a greenish sulphur on our Purple Duranta.  Needing a Lyside Sulphur for the day I went over to check it out and was surprised to find it was a male Statira Sulphur.  I saw a couple of them yesterday and a couple more today including a female.






Also new for our yard was this White-Patched Skipper.


Now I'm wondering how many of these big greenish sulphurs that I have been passing off as Cloudless were really Statiras.