Warm breezy days in December and visiting butterfly watchers always make a good recipe for rare butterflies in the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas. So I ran over to the National Butterfly Center hoping for something good; maybe the Barred Yellow seen yesterday. There was nothing earth shattering but some pretty uncommon butterflies posed nicely for photos like this Blomfild's Beauty.
At the same bait log was this striking Question Mark.
Uusally Malachites are found at the bait logs so it was nice to find one nectaring of the purple Duranta.
Tailed Orange feeding on a flame acanthus.
The normally common Dusly-blue Groundstreaks have been hard to find this year.
We have still not had a strong cold front yet this winter. Lowest temperature has been about forty so butterfly so butterflies are still on the wing and no real cold is in the forcast for the next ten days. It is prime time for more rarites to show.
