I saw some more butterflies after the sun popped out and spent some time birding. Then it got cloudy again so I checked out the purple Duranta wondering what might appear before the approaching rain. I saw a spreadwing skipper with a white band and recognized it as an Aguna. I was hoping for Emerald but will be happy with Gold-spotted, a very good yard butterfly.
Then the rains came and I noticed a Queen sitting on the coral bean. 'Cept it wasn't a Queen, It was our yard first Soldier, bringing our yard total to 83.
Other good stuff during the morning included a Double-dotted Skipper with it's long proboscis.
And a couple of Turk's-cap White-Skippers.
A nice looking Southern Skipperling.
If I look hard enough I can just about always find a Mimosa Skipper in the yard.
A new butterfly for the yard yesterday was this ratty Brazilian Skipper.
And the day before that we added a not so rare Rounded Metalmark.
And the good butterfly season is just getting started.
Giant Swallowtail 1
- Cloudless Sulphur 8
- Large Orange Sulphur 4
- Little Yellow 4
- Mimosa Yellow 1
- Sleepy Orange 1
- Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 1
- Western Pygmy-Blue 1
- Cassius Blue 5
- Ceraunus Blue 5
- Gulf Fritillary 2
- Vesta Crescent 1
- Phaon Crescent 1
- Pearl Crescent 2
- Painted Lady 2
- White Peacock 5
- Tawny Emperor 1
- Queen 2
- Soldier 1
- Gold-spotted Aguna 1
- Brown Longtail 2
- Sickle-winged Skipper 4
- Mournful Duskywing 1
- White Checkered-Skipper 3
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper 8
- Laviana White-Skipper 4
- Turk's-cap White-Skipper 2
- Fawn-spotted Skipper 2
- Clouded Skipper 12
- Double-dotted Skipper 1
- Southern Skipperling 2
- Fiery Skipper 1
- Whirlabout 2
- Southern Broken-Dash 1
- Common Mellana 1
- Celia's Roadside-Skipper 2
- Eufala Skipper 1
- Olive-clouded Skipper 2
