A few minutes later I was trying to photo graph a Julia's Skipper when the big bright orange thing flew in. Ruddy Daggerwing was butterfly #110 for our yard. It was not far from our little blooming brush holly. The insignificant flowers of this spiny bush really attract the daggerwings at the National Butterfly Center. Maybe they drew in this one.
And then my first Mexican Yellow for the year fluttered around the red salvia.
A couple of Orange-barred Sulphurs were the first I've seen in a while.
Two Long-tailed Skippers show the variability in this species.
Dorantes Longtail.
Finished up the day with 44 species.
- Giant Swallowtail 1
- Cloudless Sulphur 10
- Orange-barred Sulphur 2
- Large Orange Sulphur 5
- Lyside Sulphur 3
- Mexican Yellow 1
- Little Yellow 3
- Gray Hairstreak 2
- Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 2
- Dusky-blue Groundstreak 1
- Ceraunus Blue 1
- Rounded Metalmark 3
- Red-bordered Metalmark 6
- American Snout 3
- Gulf Fritillary 2
- Bordered Patch 5
- Vesta Crescent 2
- Phaon Crescent 8
- White Peacock 15
- Mexican Bluewing 1
- Ruddy Daggerwing 1
- Tawny Emperor 8
- Carolina Satyr 5
- Monarch 1
- Queen 80
- Soldier 10
- Long-tailed Skipper 2
- Dorantes Longtail 1
- Brown Longtail 12
- Sickle-winged Skipper 6
- Funereal Duskywing 1
- White Checkered-Skipper 3
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper12
- Laviana White-Skipper 3
- Julia's Skipper 1
- Fawn-spotted Skipper 8
- Clouded Skipper 25
- Southern Skipperling 1
- Fiery Skipper 1
- Whirlabout 2
- Southern Broken-Dash 3
- Common Mellana 2
- Eufala Skipper 2
