Nothing fantastic but a really busy day in our Progreso Lakes yard. I kept doing loops around the yard and kept adding species and finished with a total of 56. This Julia Heliconian was the first good one.
Then I saw a ragged Orange-barred Sulphur but failed to get a decent photo. So this is the nice one I found the next day.
New for the year were the five Red-crescent Scrub-Hairstreaks. They have been popping up all over the Valley.
Always enjoy finding a Silver-banded Hairstreak. I either found three of them or saw the same on in three different places.
A Guava Skipper was hiding under a papaya leaf.
Long-tailed skippers included Long-tailed Skipper and Dorantes, White-striped and Brown Longtails.
Here's a nice Brown-banded Skipper.
The two Panoquinas were pretty similar but the Purple-washed has a spot that the Ocola lacks.
Wind has been blowing from the north and east. We need it to shift around from the south to bring us some rare Mexican stuff.
Pipevine Swallowtail 1
Giant Swallowtail 1
- Cloudless Sulphur 8
- Orange-barred Sulphur 1
- Large Orange Sulphur 6
- Lyside Sulphur 4
- Boisduval's Yellow 2
- Little Yellow 8
- Mimosa Yellow 2
- Silver-banded Hairstreak 3
- Gray Hairstreak 3
- Red-crescent Scrub-Hairstreak 5
- Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 8
- Dusky-blue Groundstreak 1
- Cassius Blue 5
- Ceraunus Blue 2
- Rounded Metalmark 3
- American Snout 1
- Gulf Fritillary 2
- Julia Heliconian 1
- Mexican Fritillary 1
- Bordered Patch 4
- Elada Crescent 1
- Vesta Crescent 3
- Phaon Crescent 5
- White Peacock 20
- Tropical Leafwing 2
- Tawny Emperor 6
- Carolina Satyr 5
- Monarch 2
- Queen 150
- Soldier 15
- Guava Skipper 1
- White-striped Longtail 3
- Long-tailed Skipper 1
- Dorantes Longtail 3
- Brown Longtail 30
- Sickle-winged Skipper 40
- Brown-banded Skipper 1
- White-patched Skipper 1
- Mournful Duskywing 1
- White Checkered-Skipper 5
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper 10
- Laviana White-Skipper 10
- Julia's Skipper 2
- Fawn-spotted Skipper 10
- Clouded Skipper 10
- Double-dotted Skipper 4
- Southern Skipperling 3
- Fiery Skipper 8
- Whirlabout 3
- Southern Broken-Dash 2
- Common Mellana 10
- Eufala Skipper 6
- Ocola Skipper 2
- Purple-washed Skipper 1
