Mo-Vac Road to Sal delRey, 6/13/15

I was birding up by Hargill this morning so I thought I would check out the Mo-Vac Road that leads from Brushline Road about three miles north of TX 186 and goes into The Sal del Rey unit of the Lower Rio Grande Valley NWR.  This has been a good place in the past for Red-crescent Scrub-Hairstreak and white-skippers.  Walking in I noticed lots of globemallow which is the host plant for the Red-crescents.

I found six of them.

There were lots of Desert Checkered-Skippers.  Some people say they fold their wing up more than the other checkered-skippers but it may be that they are out in the heat of the day in a place that gets very warm.

The only white-skippers I saw were Laviana and Turk's-cap.  Here's a list.

• Giant Swallowtail 3
• Southern Dogface 6
• Large Orange Sulphur 2
• Lyside Sulphur 3
• Little Yellow 5
• Dainty Sulphur 20
• Red-crescent Scrub-Hairstreak6
• Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 2
• Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak 1
• Cassius Blue 1
• Ceraunus Blue 2
• Reakirt's Blue 3
• Fatal Metalmark 2
• American Snout 10
• Gulf Fritillary 1
• Theona Checkerspot 2
• Common Buckeye 2
• Mexican Bluewing 1
• Common Mestra 5
• Monarch 1
• Sickle-winged Skipper 3
• White Checkered-Skipper 1
• Desert Checkered-Skipper 15
• Laviana White-Skipper 1
• Turk's-cap White-Skipper 2
• Eufala Skipper 2