Our Yard, 6/27/15

We got up late this morning and decided to stay home today.   So I was doing some yardwork when a nice looking Banded Peacock flew by.  I dropped the pruners and ran into the house for the camera but I was too late.  I kept an eye on the yard throughout the day hoping it would return, but now such luck.  Anyway it was yard butterfly #96.

I did get lucky when a Large Orange Sulphur I was watching landed in our Golden Rain Tree and I happened to have the camera.  The luck was that it actually was an Orange-barred Sulphur.  It took me a while to notice the orange bar.

Another yellow that I don't see too often in our yard is Mimosa Yellow.

I see Little Yellows almost every day.

A couple of small skippers hanging out in the shade proved to be Celia's Roadside-Skipper.

Guava Skipper is becoming an almost daily occurrence in our yard.  This one was under a heliconia leaf.

So we had 26 species in the yard today which is the most I've seen in a while.

• Giant Swallowtail 2
• Great Southern White 2
• Cloudless Sulphur 1
• Orange-barred Sulphur 1
• Lyside Sulphur 1
• Little Yellow 3
• Mimosa Yellow 1
• Gray Hairstreak 1
• Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 2
• Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak 1
• Dusky-blue Groundstreak 3
• Cassius Blue 1
• Bordered Patch 15
• Elada Crescent 1
• Texan Crescent 1
• Vesta Crescent 1
• Phaon Crescent 2
• Pearl Crescent 2
• Banded Peacock 1
• Guava Skipper 1
• Brown Longtail 2
• Tropical Checkered-Skipper 8
• Clouded Skipper 2
• Whirlabout 1
• Celia's Roadside-Skipper 2
• Eufala Skipper 1