Thursday, August 19, 2021

Another new butterfly!

Yes! Yet ANOTHER "right time, right place" story. I was checking on one of our yellow garden spiders and spotted what looked to be a different kind of butterfly. It was! This is a goatweed leafwing (Anaea andria). I wish I could have seen the interior wings. But at least I got some shots before it flew away. 

In the meantime, I noticed that the leafwing was sharing a perch on a Texas lantana with a green June beetle (Cotinis nitida). After the butterfly left, I looked closer at the beetle. It was dining on the lantana berries! First time I've observed ANYTHING eating those berries. There were at least three or four other beetles doing the same thing. Interesting!



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