Thursday, April 19, 2012

Butterflies Along the San Antonio River Channel

Thursday, April 20, 2012

All the flowers now blooming along the banks of the San Antonio River have attracted a proportional number of butterflies of a variety of species. This is only a few:




















These photos were taken on my walk a week ago on Wednesday, April 11 and yesterday on Wednesday, April 18.

The butterflies above in the order of appearance:
1 - 3        Checkered White (Pontia protodice)
4 - 5        Orange Sulphur (Colias eurytheme)
6 - 9        Checkered White (Pontia protodice)
10 - 11    Mexican Fritillary (Euptoieata hegesia)
12 - 14    White Checkered-Skipper (Pyrgus albescens)
15 - 19    Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta)

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