All photographs ©2007 - 2008
Miscellaneous Leps and Odes of the Lower Rio Grande Valley
Bentsen Rio Grande State Park:
Taken June 2008:
American Snout
Leather-colored Bird Grasshopper?
Female Sulphur-tipped Clubtail
Digiscoped Five-striped Leaftail at the canal
Caribbean Yellowface, same location
Red Saddlebags
Blue-ringed Dancer
Female Spot-tailed Dasher
Southern Skipperling
Blue-fronted Dancer
Red-tailed Pennant
Male Spot-tailed Dasher
Taken May 2008:
"Fantasia" form of the Lyside Sulphur; superficially it resembles the very rare Green-eyed White, but the latter's antennae are very long compared to the sulphur's! (Left photo is taken with the flash; right one without...)
Large Orange Sulphur
Roseate Skimmer (APR 08)
Little Yellow (MAR 08)
Taken February 2008:
Hackberry Emperor at "Josh's Diner"; while the forewing bar is not "broken" as is typical, it's not solid enough for Empress Leila, which is what I originally thought it was.
Giant Swallowtail at the "Ladies' Room Lantana"
Digiscoped image of a pair of Rambur's Forktails "in the wheel"
Funereal Duskywing at the garden near the resaca
Hyselonotis Bug?
Fatal Metalmark
Pale-spotted Leafwing
Taken November 2007:
Worn Julia's Skipper
Another Coyote Cloudywing, again showing how that "wrinkled" hindwing can look like a lobe!
Brown-banded Skipper
Turk's-cap White Skipper
Common Banner
White Angled Sulphur
A Giant White before the Thursday Night Walk
Ruby-spotted Swallowtail
Banded Peacock
Isabella'a Heliconian
Rick pointing at a beat-up Gray Hairstreak (shows you how tiny they are)!
What they normally look like!
Female Pavon Emperor
Empress Leila
Black Setwing (female left, male right)