It's prime butterfly season in the RGV and with strong SSE wind forecast ahead of a weak cold front, I put in a few hours at the National Butterfly Center. Pretty good butterflies were on the wing but nothing super rare. Best was another Blomfild's Beauty. This one is a male.
Red Rim is annual in the Valley but usually is pretty rare. Two today is a very uncommon occurance.
And both of the above on the same baitlog is pretty much unheard of.
There were three Marius Hairstreaks on the same Hamelia.
I like the angle on this Guava Skipper. They have been more common than usual lately.
I couldn't turn down a Red-bordered Pixie.
After I had a couple of Curve-winged Metalmark sightings at Quinta Mazatlan while the dozen or more visiting butterfly watchers had seen none, Linda Cooper jokingly told me to find her one. I didn't find one but she manged to find her own.
This beatup Band-celled sister has been around a few days.
Another woolly long-horned bee stole my attention. Maybe someday I can ID it.
Today's list of 58 species.
- Pipevine Swallowtail 2
- Giant Swallowtail 5
- Florida White 1
- Southern Dogface 3
- Cloudless Sulphur 3
- Large Orange Sulphur 6
- Lyside Sulphur 2
- Little Yellow 5
- Marius Hairstreak 3
- Silver-banded Hairstreak 1
- Gray Hairstreak 3
- Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 20
- Clytie Ministreak 1
- Cassius Blue 2
- Ceraunus Blue 6
- Red-bordered Pixie 1
- Curve-winged Metalmark 1
- American Snout 5
- Gulf Fritillary 3
- Julia Heliconian 1
- Zebra Heliconian 10
- Mexican Fritillary 1
- Bordered Patch 1
- Elada Checkerspot 2
- Texan Crescent 1
- Vesta Crescent 1
- Phaon Crescent 5
- Question Mark 1
- Red Admiral 2
- Common Buckeye 1
- White Peacock 2
- Mexican Bluewing 2
- Common Mestra 10
- Red Rim 2
- Tropical Leafwing 3
- Empress Leilia 2
- Tawny Emperor 15
- Carolina Satyr 1
- Queen 15
- White-striped Longtail 1
- Long-tailed Skipper 3
- Dorantes Longtail 3
- Brown Longtail 2
- Coyote Cloudywing 1
- Sickle-winged Skipper 3
- White Checkered-Skipper 5
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper 5
- Laviana White-Skipper 6
- Turk's-cap White-Skipper 1
- Fawn-spotted Skipper 1
- Clouded Skipper 6
- Double-dotted Skipper 6
- Southern Skipperling 1
- Fiery Skipper 2
- Whirlabout 1
- Sachem 1
- Eufala Skipper 5
- Brazilian Skipper 3
