Pierids at Progreso Lakes, 10/8/17

A few weeks ago, right after Hurricane Harvey, the wind shifted from north to south and we had our first Yellow Angled-Sulphurs, Florida Whites and Giant White in our yard here at Progreso Lakes.  Well, Hurricane Nate just ran up through the Gulf giving us a northerly component to our winds and they shifted back to southerly again today.  And guess what shows up in our yard?

Yellow-angled Sulphur

Florida White

and Giant White.

There's obviously some kind of a pattern here.  Meanwhile Jon McIntyre saw a Tailed Orange up at Falcon yesterday.  I had not seen one in months and then we get this summer form Tailed Orange today, yard butterfly #87.

Another butterfly I had not seen around for weeks was Orange-barred Sulphur.  This female was ovipositing on the neighbor's Golden Rain Tree (Cassia sp.)

Of course we had Large Orange and Cloudless Sulphurs but I could not find a Statira.  35 species seems about the norm lately.

• Pipevine Swallowtail 2
• Giant Swallowtail 1
• Florida White 2
• Great Southern White 1
• Yellow Angled-Sulphur 2
• Cloudless Sulphur 10
• Orange-barred Sulphur 1
• Large Orange Sulphur 4
• Tailed Orange 1
• Little Yellow 5
• Sleepy Orange 1
• Cassius Blue 5
• American Snout 1
• Bordered Patch 2
• Vesta Crescent 1
• Phaon Crescent 2
• Pearl Crescent 5
• Painted Lady 1
• White Peacock 6
• Queen 5
• White-striped Longtail 1
• Brown Longtail 3
• Sickle-winged Skipper 2
• White-patched Skipper 1
• White Checkered-Skipper 3
• Tropical Checkered-Skipper 6
• Laviana White-Skipper 5
• Turk's-cap White-Skipper 1
• Clouded Skipper 10
• Southern Skipperling 2
• Fiery Skipper 3
• Whirlabout 1
• Southern Broken-Dash 3
• Common Mellana 3
• Olive-clouded Skipper 1