Saturday, December 12, 2020

Chestnut Crescent, Band-celled Sister at Progreso Lakes, 12/12/20

I spent the morning looking at birds in our Progreso Lakes yard.  After lunch I switched over to butterflies and scored a good one with this female Chestnut Crescent which was yard butterfly #128.  I've seen a few over at Estero so it wasn't a big surprise but it's still a great butterfly for the yard.




A bit later I finally found a long overdue Band-celled Sister which was near a little Crucillo which is the host plant.  Would be neat if it layed some eggs.  Yard butterfly #129.



There were two female Florida Whites.  Here's the photogenic one.



It's interesting that we had strong southerly wind yesterday morning which may account for these different butterflies.  I don't know if this Boisduval's Yellow was blown in or if it hatched out on our Senna.


Here's an unusually marked Soldier.



First Reakirt's Blue of the season.


  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Florida White 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Large Orange Sulphur 4
  • Lyside Sulphur 5
  • Boisduval's Yellow 1
  • Little Yellow 5
  • Dainty Sulphur 1
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 5
  • Dusky-blue Groundstreak 3
  • Reakirt's Blue 1
  • Red-bordered Pixie 6
  • American Snout 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 2
  • Texan Crescent 1
  • Chestnut Crescent 1
  • White Peacock 3
  • Band-celled Sister 1
  • Common Mestra 1
  • Tawny Emperor 2
  • Monarch 3
  • Queen 10
  • Soldier 5
  • Brown Longtail 5
  • Sickle-winged Skipper 2
  • Funereal Duskywing 1
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 5
  • Desert Checkered-Skipper 5
  • Laviana White-Skipper 6
  • Julia's Skipper 1
  • Fawn-spotted Skipper 3
  • Clouded Skipper 6
  • Southern Skipperling 3
  • Fiery Skipper 3
  • Eufala Skipper 2