Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: South Texas - Today's butterfly photos, 1 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
In all we had 61 species including 12 Hairstreaks with a span of about 4 hours. Gotta remember there were thousands of butterflies there. Truly sensory overload. It was hard to pin point a butterfly to look at as there were such an abundance. Often times, two or three on the same flower.

I know I've never seen so many different species of Hairstreaks in one place at the same time. This is the break down of the extremely rare to not so common.

Gray Hairstreak
Silver-banded Hairstreak
Great Purple Hairstreak
Dusky Blue Groundstreak
Clytie Ministreak
Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak
Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak
Lacey's Scrub Hairstreak
Strophius Hairstreak
Telea Hairstreak
Ruddy Hairstreak *(Now referred to by some as E. hugon)
Muted Hairstreak

Some of Falcon's other not so common butterflies today were:
Malachite
Dorantes Longtail
Zilpa Longtail
Brown-banded Skipper
Two-barred Flasher
Coyote Cloudywing
Desert Checkered Skipper
Erichson's White Skipper
Fawn-spotted Skipper
Purple-washed Skipper

A few of the many people present today were: Ro and Betty Wauer, Tom
Pendleton, Larry Ditto, Martin Reid, Fran Bartles, Dave Hanson and me (Cat Traylor).

ps...Forgot to post the Ruddy Hairstreak photo.


~ Cat

This message was edited Oct 17, 2007 7:05 AM