Thursday, May 26, 2016

Resasca de la Palma, 5/26/16

This morning I ran out to Resaca de la Palma State Park to see how the butterflies were doing.  I don't think I had been out  there since last fall's butterfly festival.  The butterfly garden was overgrown with little blooming and in need of trimming.  But the Ebony Trail was great.  Best butterfly was this Falcate Skipper on a blooming crucillo.  I think it's my first for Cameron County.



Also saw three Band-celled Sisters.  Glad to see them back after they were missing here last year.



Boisduval's Yellows were all over the place.


And good to see plenty of female Mexican Bluewings.


Here's an orangish Pale-banded Crescent.


There must have been a couple of hundred Clytie Ministreaks.


Never seen so many Mazan's Scallopwings.  The males are really black this summer.


Resaca de la Palma is a good place for Mimosa Skippers.


In the butterfly garden were several Rounded Metalmarks.


And a Red-bordered Metalmark.  I saw a Blue Metalmark but could not get a photos.


This female Cloudless Sulphur was really pumping out the pheromones.



Here's my list for the day.
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 2
  • Great Southern White 20
  • Cloudless Sulphur 20
  • Large Orange Sulphur 4
  • Lyside Sulphur 10
  • Boisduval's Yellow 25
  • Little Yellow 3
  • Dainty Sulphur 3
  • Dusky-blue Groundstreak 3
  • Clytie Ministreak 200
  • Rounded Metalmark 3
  • Red-bordered Metalmark 1
  • Blue Metalmark 1
  • American Snout 5
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Texan Crescent 4
  • Pale-banded Crescent 2
  • Phaon Crescent 2
  • White Peacock 2
  • Band-celled Sister 3
  • Mexican Bluewing 8
  • Tawny Emperor 3
  • Carolina Satyr 2
  • Brown Longtail 1
  • Falcate Skipper 1
  • Mimosa Skipper 1
  • Mazans Scallopwing 20
  • Sickle-winged Skipper 10
  • White Checkered-Skipper 3
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper10
  • Laviana White-Skipper 6
  • Fawn-spotted Skipper 3
  • Clouded Skipper 5
  • Whirlabout 3
  • Southern Broken-Dash 4
  • Common Mellana 1
  • Celia's Roadside-Skipper 2
  • Eufala Skipper 2