It's hot and dry in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of south Texas, but the good butterflies keep coming. Gotta get em before they fry! Still getting hairstreaks. Along with the usual for this summer Clench's, Ruddy and Marius, I found this guy. It kind of looks like an Orange-crescent Groundstreak but I'm not getting a lot of support for that ID. Most think it's a Ruddy.
My first Statira Sulphur for the year was in front in the white Duranta.
Nearby was a Brown-banded Skipper. Woody found a second in the nursery.
Giant Whites were in the Mexican Orchid.
It was getting really hot and I was ready to head home when Woody reported two Ruddy Dagerwings by the nursery.
Today's list of 53 species
- Giant Swallowtail 10
- Checkered White 2
- Great Southern White 20
- Giant White 2
- Cloudless Sulphur 2
- Large Orange Sulphur 20
- Statira Sulphur 1
- Lyside Sulphur 40
- Little Yellow 3
- Dainty Sulphur 2
- Marius Hairstreak 3
- Clench's Greenstreak 8
- Gray Hairstreak 2
- Red-crescent Scrub-Hairstreak 1
- Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 5
- Ruddy Hairstreak 1
- Dusky-blue Groundstreak 6
- Clytie Ministreak 6
- Cassius Blue 3
- Ceraunus Blue 3
- Red-bordered Metalmark 1
- Curve-winged Metalmark 2
- American Snout 500
- Gulf Fritillary 2
- Mexican Fritillary 2
- Theona Checkerspot 1
- Bordered Patch 3
- Elada Checkerspot 1
- Texan Crescent 2
- Pale-banded Crescent 3
- Phaon Crescent 5
- Question Mark 1
- White Peacock 10
- Mexican Bluewing 12
- Dingy Purplewing 1
- Gray Cracker 2
- Ruddy Daggerwing 2
- Tropical Leafwing 8
- Empress Leilia 1
- Tawny Emperor 25
- Queen 3
- Soldier 2
- Brown Longtail 5
- Brown-banded Skipper 2
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper 10
- Laviana White-Skipper 5
- Clouded Skipper 10
- Southern Skipperling 1
- Whirlabout 3
- Southern Broken-Dash 3
- Celia's Roadside-Skipper 5
- Eufala Skipper 2
- Mexican Crescent 10
