All photographs ©2007 - 2008
Miscellaneous Leps and Odes of the Lower Rio Grande Valley
NABA Garden:
Taken June 2008:
Female Tropical Leafwing
Female white morph Large Orange Sulphur
Bordered Patch blowing in the wind...
Great Southern White
The following three odes are best guesses...
Thornbush Dasher
Double-striped Bluets "in the wheel"
Blue-ringed Dancer
Dot-lined Angle (Macaria punctolineata) (MAY 08)
Taken April 2008:
One of those Lyside Sulphurs that like to mimic Common Melwhites! J
Bordered Patch
Taken March 2008:
Whirlabout (male left and center; female right)
Probable Coyote Cloudywing
Roseate Skimmer
Taken February 2008:
Female Silver Emperor
The "silver" really shines when the sun hits it just right!
John Yochum found this female Red-bordered Metalmark!
Taken November 2007:
Lantana Scrub Hairstreak without the ray
Malachite
"Rudder-tailed Peacock" (new species J)
Turk's-cap White Skipper
White-patched Skipper
This Coyote Cloudywing at times seemed to show no lobes (above), but at other times seemed to show a very strong one (below) and had several of us wondering if we had a Jalapus. Turns out this isn't the first time folks have been fooled by a seductively curved hindwing!
Crimson Patch
Southern Broken Dash
Mexican Bluewing
Silver-banded Hairstreak
Laviana White Skipper