My goal today was to get out and do some scouting for the Texas Butterfly Festival. But as usual I needed to check out our yard first. My reward was our first Tailed Aguna at Progreso Lakes. Yard butterfly #133 was the third I have found on my own of this species, the other two being years ago at Estero and the Hidalgo Pumphouse.
The other good find was this fresh male Mexican Bluewing which was just a few feet from the female who has been hanging out in our brush patch. Maybe they will get "busy". The female has more extensive white spotting on the forewing.
Been a while since I've seen a Painted Lady.
I finally got out of the yard and did some scouting up in the brush country north of TX 186. Not many flowers out there but there were a few clumps of Crucita on Brushline Rd and some blooming Coma. Best find was a couple of Erichson's White-Skippers.
And a few Turk's Cap White-Skippers.
Found a few Desert Checkered-Skippers on CR 30 just over in Willacy County but the few floweres had few butterflies.
And also a Mexican Fritillary. Notice this one and the one above are both perched onthe nasty grass burs which take some of the fun out of CR 30.
Here's my yard list for the morning.
- Pipevine Swallowtail 1
- Giant Swallowtail 2
- Cloudless Sulphur 2
- Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 1
- Gulf Fritillary 1
- Elada Crescent 1
- Phaon Crescent 1
- Painted Lady 1
- White Peacock 3
- Tawny Emperor 3
- Queen 20
- Soldier 5
- White-striped Longtail 1
- Tailed Aguna 1
- Brown Longtail 3
- Mimosa Skipper 1
- Sickle-winged Skipper 5
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper 2
- Laviana White-Skipper 1
- Clouded Skipper 8
- Double-dotted Skipper 1
- Fiery Skipper 3
- Whirlabout 2
- Common Mellana 1
- Eufala Skipper 2
- Ocola Skipper 1
