Progreso Lakes yard, 11/21/17

I finally got around to some long neglected weeding in the yard today.  When I finished I thought I would check out the butterflies.  Well I kept seeing stuff and more stuff.  By the time I was finished I had seen fifty species for the day, a new one day high for our yard.  Best was this Mexican Yellow.

I saw a nice male Orange-barred Sulphur but all I could photograph was this beat up female.

Statira Sulphurs are no longer a surprise in our yard this year.

And the same can be said for Giant Whites.

My photos never do justice to Red-bordered Pixies.

Here's his cousin, the Red-bordered Metalmark.

50 species will be tough to beat unless I add some more plants.

• Giant Swallowtail 1
• Giant White 1
• Cloudless Sulphur 12
• Orange-barred Sulphur 3
• Large Orange Sulphur 6
• Statira Sulphur 1
• Mexican Yellow 1
• Little Yellow 4
• Sleepy Orange 1
• Dainty Sulphur 1
• Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 3
• Dusky-blue Groundstreak 3
• Cassius Blue 4
• Ceraunus Blue 2
• Fatal Metalmark 1
• Red-bordered Metalmark 1
• Red-bordered Pixie 2
• American Snout 4
• Gulf Fritillary 2
• Bordered Patch 1
• Texan Crescent 1
• Vesta Crescent 12
• Phaon Crescent 6
• Pearl Crescent 4
• Red Admiral 1
• White Peacock 40
• Common Mestra 2
• Tawny Emperor 2
• Carolina Satyr 6
• Monarch 1
• Queen 25
• Soldier 3
• Guava Skipper 1
• White-striped Longtail 1
• Brown Longtail 6
• Sickle-winged Skipper 10
• White Checkered-Skipper 15
• Tropical Checkered-Skipper 8
• Laviana White-Skipper 8
• Julia's Skipper 3
• Fawn-spotted Skipper 10
• Clouded Skipper 30
• Southern Skipperling 2
• Fiery Skipper 2
• Whirlabout 3
• Southern Broken-Dash 2
• Sachem 1
• Common Mellana 1
• Eufala Skipper 4
• Ocola Skipper 1