Gee, I forgot to finish this post from our Texas Butterfly Festival trip to Falcon Lake State Park. Best bug of the day has to go to the rare Banded Patch that has hung on up there in the butterfly garden for a couple of weeks.
Jalapus Cloudywing has been reported from several times recently from the butterfly garden. Basically any Coyote Cloudywing that look like it has extensions of the rear wing gets called a Jalapus. But Coyote Cloudywing can sit with it's wing slightly folded so it looks like it has a "tail". Here's one with no tail and another that maybe has a tail. I'm calling them all Coyote Cloudy wings.
I've always expected Desert Checkered Skipper at Falcon. I finally saw some.
A very photogenic American Lady.
An unusually red Common Buckeye. But it looked normal on the dosral side.
Certainly one of my more productive days at Falcon.
- Pipevine Swallowtail 1
- Orange Sulphur 1
- Southern Dogface 6
- Cloudless Sulphur 1
- Large Orange Sulphur 6
- Lyside Sulphur 40
- Tailed Orange 1
- Little Yellow 3
- Sleepy Orange 8
- Gray Hairstreak 4
- Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 4
- Clytie Ministreak 4
- Ceraunus Blue 20
- Reakirt's Blue 3
- Fatal Metalmark 2
- American Snout 10
- Gulf Fritillary 6
- Variegated Fritillary 4
- Mexican Fritillary 3
- Bordered Patch 1
- Banded Patch 1
- Elada Crescent 6
- Texan Crescent 1
- American Lady 2
- Painted Lady 1
- Common Buckeye 8
- White Peacock 5
- Common Mestra 2
- Tropical Leafwing 1
- Tawny Emperor 1
- Monarch 5
- Queen 150
- Soldier 1
- White-striped Longtail 1
- Long-tailed Skipper 1
- Dorantes Longtail 6
- Brown Longtail 1
- Coyote Cloudywing 5
- Texas Powdered-Skipper 1
- Sickle-winged Skipper 2
- Brown-banded Skipper 2
- Funereal Duskywing 3
- White Checkered-Skipper 1
- Desert Checkered-Skipper 2
- Laviana White-Skipper 2
- Fiery Skipper 2
- Sachem 20
- Eufala Skipper 15
- Ocola Skipper 8
- Purple-washed Skipper 1
