Butterflies of Texas

The Lower Rio Grande Valley is one of the best butterflying locations in the entire United States. Here are pictures of butterflies from that region, taken with a Nikon CoolPix 4500, nearly all using natural lighting. Click here for some of the psychotic butterfliers and other wildlife from the LRGV with whom I went butterflying.

Hairstreaks & Blues (Lycaenidae)

Hairstreaks (Subfamily Theclinae)

Silver-banded Hairstreak (Chlorostrymon simaethis) NABA Park, Hidalgo Co., TX 13 Oct 2004	same individual but with different lighting

	Xami Hairstreak (Callophrys xami) Loma Alta, Cameron Co., TX 14 Oct 2004
Worn individual sitting on cactus pad Loma Alta, Cameron Co., TX 14 Oct 2004	Same individual Notice the dull orange/tan upper surface

Gray Hairstreak (Strymon melinus) Mission, Hidalgo Co., TX 13 Oct 2004	Gray Hairstreak (Strymon melinus) Mission, Hidalgo Co., TX 13 Oct 2004

	This worn Gray Hairstreak had a narrow miss with a bird or some other predator! Mission, Hidalgo Co., TX 13 Oct 2004

Red-crescent Scrub-Hairstreak (Strymon rufofusca) Mission, Hidalgo Co., TX 13 Oct 2004	Red-crescent Scrub-Hairstreak (Strymon rufofusca) Mission, Hidalgo Co., TX 13 Oct 2004

Lacey's Scrub-Hairstreak (Strymon alea) Mission, Hidalgo Co., TX 13 Oct 2004	Lacey's Scrub-Hairstreak (Strymon alea) (Different individual) Mission, Hidalgo Co., TX 13 Oct 2004
	Lacey's Scrub-Hairstreak (Strymon alea) (Same individual as above left) Mission, Hidalgo Co., TX 13 Oct 2004

This was a very popular butterfly in the garden at the Festival Headquarters! Lacey's Scrub-Hairstreak (Strymon alea) Mission, Hidalgo Co., TX 13 Oct 2004

White Scrub-Hairstreak (Strymon albata) NABA Butterfly Park, Hidalgo Co., TX 19 Oct 2004

Note the blue upper surface of Lantana Scrub-Hairstreaks.

Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak (Strymon bazochii) NABA Park, Hidalgo Co., TX 13 Oct 2004	Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak (Strymon bazochii) Lucy's Garden, Mission, Hidalgo Co., TX 13 Oct 2004
Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak (Strymon bazochii) Lucy's Garden, Mission, Hidalgo Co., TX 13 Oct 2004	Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak (Strymon bazochii) Lucy's Garden, Mission, Hidalgo Co., TX 13 Oct 2004

Dusky-blue Groundstreak (Calycopis isobeon) Mission, Hidalgo Co., TX 13 Oct 2004	Dusky-blue Groundstreak (Calycopis isobeon) NABA Park, Hidalgo Co., TX 13 Oct 2004

Clytie Ministreak (Ministrymon clytie) Santa Ana NWR, Hidalgo Co., TX 15 Oct 04

Blues (Subfamily Polyommatinae)

Ceraunus Blue (Hemiargus ceraunus), male Mission, Hidalgo, TX 13 Oct 2004	Ceraunus Blue (Hemiargus ceraunus) Mission, Hidalgo, TX 13 Oct 2004

Western Pygmy-Blue (Brephidium exile) Frontera Audubon, Hidalgo Co., TX 18 Oct 2004	Western Pygmy-Blue (Brephidium exile) Starr Co., TX 17 Oct 2004

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Created on ... Mar 2, 2005 | Updated on ... Mar 25, 2005 | jeffpippen9@gmail.com