08/09-August-2004 Texas Butterfly Highlights
Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas

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Hoary Skipper (Carrenhenes canescens)

On 09-Aug-2004 Jim Hengeveld found this butterfly which we believe to be a Hoary Skipper (Carrhenes canescens) in the parking lot of Santa Ana NWR near the Texas Ebony trees in the northwestern part of the lot.

Hoary Skipper (Carrhenes canescens)


Hoary Skipper (Carrhenes canescens)


White Scrub-Hairstreak (Strymon albata)

This butterfly, which I believe to be a White Scrub-Hairstreak (Strymon albata) was found on 08-Aug-2004 at the Duranta hedge in Mission West RV park in Mission, Texas. Note that this is a DIFFERENT individual than the one that Gill Quintanilla found on 07-Aug-2004!

White Scrub-Hairstreak (Strymon albata)


White Scrub-Hairstreak (Strymon albata)