With the Texas Butterfly Festival coming up, today I was joined at Progreso Lakes by Linda Cooper, Barbara Volkle, Steve Moore, Sarab Seth and Jon McIntyre. The extra eyes helped run today's tally to 56 species. New for the yard was this sharp Desert Checkered-Skipper. Butterfly #134!
Later Barbara, Steve and I saw this Violet-banded Skipper for just a couple of seconds. I was able to fire off one shot as it took off. The dark band and wing spot are visible on our yard butterfly #135. We could not relocate it.
We found another Mexican Yellow.
Jon found the first Texan Cresent I've seen in our yard in a long time.
We had three Purple-washed Skippers.
Several more Double-dotted Skippers.
Here's a Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak.
And the male Mexican Bluewing showed off the best ever.
Wind was still coming from the north today. Hoping for more exotic stuff when it switches back around to the south.
- Pipevine Swallowtail 1
- Giant Swallowtail 2
- Checkered White 1
- Great Southern White 2
- Cloudless Sulphur 5
- Large Orange Sulphur 8
- Lyside Sulphur 3
- Mexican Yellow 1
- Little Yellow 8
- Sleepy Orange 3
- Gray Hairstreak 3
- Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 4
- Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak 1
- Clytie Ministreak 1
- Western Pygmy-Blue 6
- Ceraunus Blue 4
- Reakirt's Blue 2
- American Snout 2
- Gulf Fritillary 2
- Texan Crescent 1
- Vesta Crescent 1
- Phaon Crescent 2
- Question Mark 2
- Red Admiral 1
- Common Buckeye 1
- White Peacock 6
- Mexican Bluewing 1
- Common Mestra 1
- Tawny Emperor 10
- Carolina Satyr 2
- Monarch 3
- Queen 50
- Soldier 10
- White-striped Longtail 4
- Long-tailed Skipper 1
- Dorantes Longtail 2
- Brown Longtail 25
- Mimosa Skipper 1
- Sickle-winged Skipper 8
- Mournful Duskywing 2
- Funereal Duskywing 1
- White Checkered-Skipper 8
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper 6
- Desert Checkered-Skipper 1
- Laviana White-Skipper 8
- Clouded Skipper 25
- Double-dotted Skipper 3
- Southern Skipperling 6
- Fiery Skipper 25
- Whirlabout 10
- Southern Broken-Dash 2
- Common Mellana 1
- Eufala Skipper 8
- Ocola Skipper 1
- Purple-washed Skipper 2
- Violet-banded Skipper 1
