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
