Thursday, February 13, 2020

Resaca de la Palma, 2/13/20

This has been a really warm winter.  But it's also been very dry so butterflies have been in short supply.  This morning I ran over to Resaca de la Palma State Park in Cameron County to do some birding and got pleasantly distracted by butterflies.  Four Blue Metalmarks stole the show.



The Boisduval's Yellow were hard to photograph as usual but I did get a shot.


The Boisduval's Yellow and Orange-barred Sulphur at two species that are hard to see in Hidalgo County but appear in our yard at Progreso Lakes.  I think Chistmas Senna (Senna pendula) is the common denominator.


This Mexican Bluewing was hanging around the bird feeding station.  I missed the Band-celled Sister that was also seen there.


Brown-banded Skipper was a nice surprise but there's a lot of Barbados Cherry, which is the host plant, at Resaca so I guess it's not such a surprise.


Red-bordered Metalmark.


Let's hope we get some rain.

  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Large Orange Sulphur 1
  • Lyside Sulphur 1
  • Boisduval's Yellow 2
  • Little Yellow 3
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 1
  • Dusky-blue Groundstreak 3
  • Red-bordered Metalmark 1
  • Red-bordered Pixie 4
  • American Snout 3
  • Vesta Crescent 1
  • Phaon Crescent 2
  • American Lady 1
  • Band-celled Sister 1
  • Mexican Bluewing 1
  • Carolina Satyr 5
  • Brown Longtail 1
  • Sickle-winged Skipper 3
  • Brown-banded Skipper 1
  • Funereal Duskywing 1
  • White Checkered-Skipper 3
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 8
  • Laviana White-Skipper 3
  • Turk's-cap White-Skipper 1
  • Julia's Skipper 1
  • Clouded Skipper 3
  • Fiery Skipper 3
  • Whirlabout 3
  • Southern Broken-Dash 4
  • Eufala Skipper 2