Whites, Yellows, Sulphurs, & Oranges (Pieridae)
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Checkered White

Checkered White (Pontia protodice), male.



dogface

Southern Dogface (Zerene (Colias) cesonia), dead male.
The spot is the eye of the dog face.



littleyellow

Little Yellow (Eurema lisa) puddling. Which
is imbibing moisture and minerals from wet soil.



Cloudless Sulphur

Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae) on Dakota Verbena, March 31, 2016.


Florida White

Mexican Tropical (aka Florida) White (Appias drusilla)
Sept 30, 2017, only my second one here.


Large Orange Sulphur

Large Orange Sulphur (Phoebis agarithe) male, are bright orange above. Note the dark line from forewing apex inward. All Large Orange show this, even pale morph females. Cloudless and others it is broken, and dots, not solid.


Yellow Angled-Sulphur

Yellow Angled-Sulphur (Anteos maerula)
on Cenizo, Oct. 13, 2017 at Utopia Park.
Vagrants are often pretty ragged.


Little Yellow

Little Yellow (Eurema lisa) - pale morph female.
Several of the Sulphurs and Yellows have a pale morph
form that is only in females.



Orange-barred Sulphur

Orange-barred Sulphur (Phoebis philea) female. Backlit you can see
the orange on distal dorsal hind wing show through wing.


giantwhite

Giant White (Ganyra josephina) Sept. 22, 2024. Most of one anyway. Vagrant butterflies are often torn and frayed. Probably travelled hundreds of miles from Mexico. Maybe the fourth one I have seen here in 21 years, but only second photographed. The first one Sept. 24, 2005 on Seco Ridge was the first ever found in Uvalde County. Some occur annually a couple hundred plus miles south in deep south Texas along the Rio Grande from Sept.- December.




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Florida White

The butterfly of the year in 2011 was late, on December 3, a Mexican Tropical (Florida) White (Appias drusilla) at the butterfly garden was maybe the second ever documented in Uvalde County.


Falcate Orange-tip

Falcate Orange-tip (Anthocharis midea) - first Bandera Co. documented record
male with "orange tips" at Lost Maples SNA, Bandera Co., 3/12/06


Falcate Orange-tip

female Falcate Orange-tip in Uvalde Co.


Giant White

Giant White - first Uvalde Co. record - 9/24/05 near Utopia
(Ganyra josephina)


Giant White

Giant White - first Uvalde Co. record - 9/24/05 near Utopia
(Ganyra josephina)


White Angled-Sulphur

White Angled-Sulphur (Anteos clorinde) - in Utopia, Uvalde Co.
What a great leaf camo, including the veins!


White Angled-Sulphur

White Angled-Sulphur, dorsal view (Anteos clorinde)



Great Southern White

Great Southern White (Ascia monuste) I have only seen a few years of 10 here.



Mexican Yellow

Mexican Yellow (Eurema mexicana) first Bandera Co. photo (Oct.'04) Most years very low numbers show up.


Orange Sulphur - Sleepy Orange

Orange Sulphur (left) and Sleepy Orange (right)
(Colias eurytheme (L) and Eurema nicippe (R))


Checkered White

Checkered White (Pontia protodice), female.


Large Orange Sulphur

Large Orange Sulphur (Phoebis agarithe) in Bandera Co.


Large Orange Sulphur

Large Orange Sulphur (Phoebis agarithe) - pale morph female


Southern Dogface

Southern Dogface (Zerene (Colias) cesonia) are very common here.


Little Yellow

Little Yellow (Eurema lisa), fairly common here.
Mimosa Yellow seems rare here, mostly in fall.


Tailed Orange

Tailed Orange (Eurema proterpia) first Bandera Co. photo - late '03. These turned out to be very rare here. Were here in numbers 2003-07 or so.


Sleepy Orange

Sleepy Orange (Eurema nicippe) are the most common to abundant medium small orange butterfly here, most of the year.


Lyside Sulphur

Lyside Sulphur (Kricogonia lyside) can be very common. Above most are white with yellow bases to wings.


Dainty Sulphur

Dainty Sulphur (Nathalis iole)



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