Travel Companions
Sue Cloutier, Ron Cloutier and Tom Murray
8 new species found in the mowed grass at the airport

21 Members of the Massachusetts Butterfly
Club made the trip to Mission Texas

 New Western Dragonflies couldn't be overlooked...
     
Narrow Striped Forceptail ---- Roseate Skimmer

Thornbush Dasher

Spot-tailed Dasher Micrathyria aequalis

 
Unknown Bluet ----- Caribbean Yellow-face

 
Fritzgaertner's Flat
We were a little confused when Mass Butterfly Club member Steve Moore Came up to us at our first Stop (between airport and hotel) at Santa Anna National Wildlife Refuge and told us this strange sounding butterfly was resting in the Men's Room. This is only the second US record for this nocturnal butterfly
 

 
Band-celled Sister ------ Silver Emperor

       Bordered Patch ----- Red-bordered Pixie

 
Crimson Patch

Tawny Emperor ----- White Peacock

 
Red Rim

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Girdling Beetle ---- Mexican Bluewing

 
Elada Checkerspot ----- Glazed Pellicia

  
Gulf Fritillary from above and below

Dusky-blue Groundstreak ----- Lantana Scrub Hairstreak

    
Silver-banded Hairstreak

 
Clydie Ministreak                     -------------         Lantana Scrub Hairstreak

    
 American Snout ------ White-tipped Pixie Moth

Wonderful Trip Leaders Assisted

   
Western Pygmy Blue ----- Ceraunus Blue

 
       Fatal Metalmark ----- Rounded Metalmark

Red-bordered Metalmark ----- Common Sicklewing

 Durantes Longtail  -----White-striped Longtail

 
Lyside Sulphur ----- Little Yellow 

 
Turk's Cap White -----  Laviana White

 
Laviana White        ----- Great Southern White

 
Brown-banded Skipper ----- Celias Roadside Skipper

Southern Broken Dash ----- Violet-banded Skipper

White-patched Skipper

Common Mestra  

    
 Ocala Skipper

  
Southern Skipperling -----Guava Skipper

Hundreds Of Scissor-tailed Flycatchers
Entertained us each day

Mexico Trip Extension

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