Rio Grande Valley Butterflies: Progreso Lakes, 10/19/17

Thursday, October 19, 2017

Progreso Lakes, 10/19/17

Wow! What a great day in our yard at Progreso Lakes. I had to stay home for the plumber and started casually looking around the yard. First good butterfly was a female Statira Sulphur. I later found a male.

After dealing with the plumber, I went back outside and quickly found this ratty Mexican Yellow, yard butterfly #91. I was expecting to get one sometime during the winter. Now I wonder if I'll see a bunch of them.

Things slowed down a while and I was about to quit when this Dorantes Longtail popped in.

I had earlier gotten White-striped Longtail.

And as usual there were plenty of Brown Longtails.

This nice Double-dotted Skipper was an afternoon surprise. I usually get them early in the day.

I made one more round of our one acre yard, checking the purple Duranta. It's had few floweres lately. I notice a boldly marked female White Checkered-Skipper and thought that it looked a bit like an Erichson's White-Skipper. But it wasn't. I was going to quit for the day and thought I should check the garden one last time. And guess what I found. Of all things, it was an Erichson's White-Skipper. I could not believe it. I thought it was a possibility for our yard but might take years to get one. #92!