A cold front blew though yeasterday and the northerly winds dumped a bunch of different butterflies in our yard today. Best was our first Mexican Yellow of the fall.
Three Common Mestras were new for fall.
We get few Mazan's Scallopwings.
Still have a pair of Mexican Bluewings.
American Lady.
It's unusual to get Reakirt's and Ceraunus Blues on the same day.
Here's the fifty species for today.
Pipevine Swallowtail 1
- Giant Swallowtail 3
- Checkered White 1
- Cloudless Sulphur 5
- Large Orange Sulphur 8
- Lyside Sulphur 5
- Mexican Yellow 1
- Little Yellow 6
- Sleepy Orange 2
- Dainty Sulphur 1
- Gray Hairstreak 4
- Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 2
- Clytie Ministreak 1
- Western Pygmy-Blue 5
- Ceraunus Blue 3
- Reakirt's Blue 2
- Gulf Fritillary 2
- Variegated Fritillary 1
- Phaon Crescent 3
- Question Mark 1
- American Lady 1
- Painted Lady 1
- Red Admiral 1
- Common Buckeye 1
- White Peacock 6
- Mexican Bluewing 2
- Common Mestra 3
- Tropical Leafwing 1
- Tawny Emperor 10
- Carolina Satyr 1
- Monarch 4
- Queen 50
- Soldier 12
- White-striped Longtail 3
- Dorantes Longtail 2
- Brown Longtail 20
- Mazans Scallopwing 1
- Sickle-winged Skipper 8
- White-patched Skipper 1
- White Checkered-Skipper 8
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper 8
- Laviana White-Skipper 8
- Turk's-cap White-Skipper 1
- Clouded Skipper 30
- Double-dotted Skipper 3
- Southern Skipperling 2
- Fiery Skipper 25
- Whirlabout 8
- Southern Broken-Dash 1
- Eufala Skipper 8
