Been busy birding and working at our new house so I haven't done much butterfly stuff lately. But after a morning of birding I decided to make a run over to the National Butterfly Center to see if anything interesting was around after the recent cold spell. I was talking with Mike Rickard near the bird feeding station in the south garden when a gorgeous Mexican Silverspot suddenly materialized out of thin air and then disappeared just as quickly. Pretty classy bug for lowly Dicliptera.
And then an emperor species was reported up by the Mexican olives but it turned out to be a nice Band-celled Sister. I later found a second in the bird feeding station.
The bug of the day was Mike's Orange-crescent Groundstreak that he had found just minutes before I arrived. Would like to have seen that one! Otherwise it was pretty buggy for late January but I found nothing else worth mentioning.
