Resaca de La Palma St Park, 6/27/25

I've been spending more of my time lately on the west end of the Rio Grande Valley so today I decided to head east to Resaca de la Palma State Park.  The butterfly garden was a bit dry but the Ebony Grove Trail looked good.  I got some of the area specialties and missed some.  This Band-celled Sister was oviposting on Randia rhagocarpa.

I had a few frustating glimpses of Boisduval's Yellow but finally got one ovipositing on Senna pendula.  I always suspected that was the host plant but this is my first time to get visual confirmation.

The third local specialty was Mazan's Scallopwing.  Only males today.

Female Mexican Bluewings were busy laying eggs on Vasey's Adelia.

A Marcellina Sulphur (southwestern version of Cloudless) oviposited on Senna pendula.

I rarely see the Eastern Cicada Killer Wasp so it was unusual to see at least a dozen today.  This giant wasp had staked out a territory right in front of the visitors center.

Here's today's list of twenty species.

• Giant Swallowtail 3
• Giant White 1
• Cloudless Sulphur 10
• Large Orange Sulphur 1
• Lyside Sulphur 6
• Boisduval's Yellow 2
• Little Yellow 3
• Dusky-blue Groundstreak 2
• Clytie Ministreak 3
• Rounded Metalmark 1
• American Snout 1
• Phaon Crescent 1
• Band-celled Sister 1
• Mexican Bluewing 5
• Queen 2
• Mazans Scallopwing 3
• Sickle-winged Skipper 5
• White Checkered-Skipper 2
• Tropical Checkered-Skipper 25
• Celia's Roadside-Skipper 1