I was hoping something good had blown in yesterday on the strong southerly winds and that I could find it in our Progreso Lakes yard before the approaching cold front would blast in. Temperature was in the 70's but it was cloudy and I wasn't finding much. Then a spotted skipper flew past my head and tangled with a Clouded Skipper and then diasappeared. Hmmm..... I went back to the plumbago patch and there it was........ Our second Osca Skipper for this fall! Most people would be happy to see one of these rare skippers from Mexico. I've now managed to find three of them. And this one posed for photos.
And just a few minutes later the cold front rocketed through and that was the end of butterflying for the day. Here's a list from yesterday and today.
- Pipevine Swallowtail 1
- Giant Swallowtail 1
- Checkered White 1
- Giant White 1
- Southern Dogface 1
- Cloudless Sulphur 5
- Large Orange Sulphur 5
- Boisduval's Yellow 1
- Little Yellow 2
- Mimosa Yellow 1
- Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 1
- Dusky-blue Groundstreak 1
- Reakirt's Blue 1
- Gulf Fritillary 6
- Mexican Silverspot 1
- Pale-banded Crescent 1
- Phaon Crescent 1
- Red Admiral 4
- White Peacock 4
- Tawny Emperor 1
- Carolina Satyr 10
- Monarch 1
- Queen 8
- Soldier 4
- Long-tailed Skipper 1
- Dorantes Longtail 5
- Brown Longtail 5
- Sickle-winged Skipper 3
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper 8
- Laviana White-Skipper 3
- Clouded Skipper 25
- Osca Skipper 1
- Double-dotted Skipper 1
- Southern Skipperling 1
- Whirlabout 1
- Southern Broken-Dash 1
- Common Mellana 1
- Eufala Skipper 1
