Progreso Lakes yard, 12/8/19

After the dull early fall and equally dull butterfly festival, things have been taking off.  It was another warm windy day between cool fronts so I spent most of it in the yard, watering my native plants and looking for butterflies.  We've had several Florida Whites in our Progreso Lakes yard this fall but this was the best looking by far.

Here's another Mexican Yellow.  I'm getting them almost daily as of late.

Also saw another Boisduval's Yellow but I could not get a shot.  It might have been the same as this one from three days ago.

I love Brazilian Skippers and this is the first we've had in quite a while.

Ho-hum....just a Double-dotted Skipper.

Finally saw a Gulf Fritillary on our Corky-stemmed Passion Vine and she was laying eggs.

I saw this big skipper with white spots on the wings and it really had me going, but it's just a tailless Long-tailed Skipper.

I'm wondering if two Red-bordered Pixies may have come from our Guamuchil Pixie Tree.

Here's today's list of 44 species.

• Pipevine Swallowtail 1
• Florida White 1
• Checkered White 1
• Cloudless Sulphur 3
• Orange-barred Sulphur 1
• Large Orange Sulphur 2
• Boisduval's Yellow 1
• Mexican Yellow 1
• Little Yellow 2
• Dainty Sulphur 1
• Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 2
• Dusky-blue Groundstreak 5
• Ceraunus Blue 1
• Red-bordered Pixie 2
• American Snout 1
• Gulf Fritillary 1
• Variegated Fritillary 1
• Texan Crescent 2
• Vesta Crescent 2
• Phaon Crescent 1
• Red Admiral 2
• White Peacock 5
• Common Mestra 1
• Carolina Satyr 1
• Monarch 4
• Queen 15
• Long-tailed Skipper 1
• Brown Longtail 5
• Sickle-winged Skipper 3
• White Checkered-Skipper 5
• Tropical Checkered-Skipper 2
• Laviana White-Skipper 2
• Fawn-spotted Skipper 2
• Clouded Skipper 3
• Double-dotted Skipper 2
• Southern Skipperling 2
• Fiery Skipper 8
• Whirlabout 4
• Southern Broken-Dash 2
• Sachem 1
• Common Mellana 2
• Brazilian Skipper 1
• Ocola Skipper 1