Monday, March 12, 2018

Progreso Lakes, 3/12/18

This afternoon I was working in the butterfly garden in our yard at Progreso Lakes when a sharp Julia's Heliconian came cruising by.  It told me to put down the shovel and pick up the camera.


Then I saw a little brown spreadwing skipper....Mazan's Scallopwing!  This is a butterfly that likes shady brushy areas and I thought it might be a while before we add this one to our yard list.  But there it was, butterfly #106.



Then there was this guy.  I thought it was just a Celia's Roadside-Skipper in a nice pose.  But looking at Glassberg, it has a lot of the field marks of Bell's Roadside-Skipper from NE Texas.  We will see what people think.


Here's a Turk's-cap White-Skipper.


When we bought this place fifteen months ago I never dreamed that Double-dotted Skipper would be a regular in our yard.  I love 'em.




Here's a very bright female Sachem.


And a Southern Broken-Dash.


This White-striped Longtail was all over our acre yard.


A couple of hours later the day's list stood at 34 species.  Pretty good.
  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 2
  • Checkered White 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Lyside Sulphur 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 1
  • Dusky-blue Groundstreak 6
  • Reakirt's Blue 1
  • American Snout 1
  • Julia Heliconian 1
  • Bordered Patch 2
  • Texan Crescent 1
  • Phaon Crescent 2
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Carolina Satyr 15
  • Monarch 1
  • White-striped Longtail 1
  • Brown Longtail 4
  • Mazans Scallopwing 1
  • Funereal Duskywing 3
  • White Checkered-Skipper 3
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper20
  • Turk's-cap White-Skipper 1
  • Julia's Skipper 3
  • Fawn-spotted Skipper 1
  • Clouded Skipper 4
  • Double-dotted Skipper 2
  • Whirlabout 1
  • Southern Broken-Dash 2
  • Sachem 2
  • Bell's Roadside-Skipper 1
  • Eufala Skipper 2