It's been hot, windy and dry at Progreso Lakes with few butterflies. But there was an influx of humidity today and with it came mosquitos and some lepidoptera. A real surprise was our third ever Marine Blue.
Our Frogfruits are blooming like crazy and attracting little things like blues, cresents and this tiny Julia Skipper.
Nice to see a Common Mellana.
Several Vesta Crescents popped up.
I like this boldly marked Large Orange Sulphur.
Twenty eight species are the most I've seen in quite a while.
- Black Swallowtail 1
- Giant Swallowtail 1
- Cloudless Sulphur 1
- Large Orange Sulphur 2
- Little Yellow 6
- Gray Hairstreak 1
- Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 5
- Dusky-blue Groundstreak 1
- Marine Blue 1
- Ceraunus Blue 3
- Reakirt's Blue 5
- Texan Crescent 3
- Vesta Crescent 3
- Phaon Crescent 2
- Carolina Satyr 1
- Queen 5
- Brown Longtail 2
- Mournful Duskywing 2
- White Checkered-Skipper 5
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper 3
- Julia's Skipper 1
- Clouded Skipper 4
- Southern Skipperling 4
- Fiery Skipper 1
- Whirlabout 2
- Common Mellana 1
- Celia's Roadside-Skipper 3
- Eufala Skipper 1
