Rayetta’s Butterflies - Early Beelzebubberiffic, Day 152, DY 1, Butterflies at the CB

black swallowtail, checkered white, little yellow, gray hairstreak

great purple hairstreak, gulf fritillary, variegated fritillary, pearl crescent,

phaon crescent, Texan crescent, bordered patch, question mark,

red admiral, common buckeye, monarch, Horace’s duskywing

Funereal duskywing, common checkered skipper, orange skipperling,

southern skipperling, fiery skipper, whirlabout

Hmmm. That is not many, 22. Earlier though, back in Hope Remains, the season, we had some different ones like a bunch of sulphurs, a juniper haristreak and a northern cloudywing. From now on, I shall attempt to keep track of seasonal changes to the butterfly fauna at the CB.

The plants blooming at the CB right now that seem to attract the butterflies are mostly the lantanas, and orange zexmenia. Also, the Eupatorium greggii, thanks to all the rain, is doing an early Beelzebubberriffic bloom.

Today’s new butterfly documentation for the CB is this one, southern skipperling. Today is dark, rainy and windy. Plus, the little doofus likes sitting on the Indiangrass which naturally blows in the wind and makes for tough focusing. But look how cute! Tiny and tame, that is -3 - 1 on the Rayetta scales.

Later.

Well now. No sooner did I finish the above when another skipper turned up. This is a southern broken dash (Wallengrenia otho) on Rudbeckia hirta. Smallish and also tame, 2 - 1 on the Rayetta scales.