How to find butterflies in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of South Texas

1. South Texas, America’s Butterfly Capital Introduction to the Butterflies of the Rio Grande Valley by Gil Quintanilla

8. Biology - Life Cycle LARVA ADULT EGG PUPA

11. Moth or Butterfly

12. Monarch vs. Queen

13. Swallowtails Family

14. Giant Swallowtail

15. Ornythion Swallowtail

16. Pipevine Swallowtail

17. Black Swallowtail

18. Black Swallowtail

19. Whites and Yellows Family

20. Florida and Great Southern Whites

21. Giant White

22. Orange Sulphur

23. Large Orange & Scarlet Musk Flower

24. Southern Dogface

25. White Angled-Sulphur & Texas Wild Olive

26. Gossamer-wings Family (Hairstreaks and Blues)

27. Gray Hairstreak

28. Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak

29. Great Purple Hairstreak

30. Dusky-blue Groundstreak

31. Ceraunus Blue (underside)

32. Ceraunus Blue (topside)

33. Metalmarks Family

34. Red-bordered Pixie

35. Fatal Metalmark

36. Red-bordered Metalmark

37. Rounded Metalmark

38. Blue Metalmark

39. Brushfoots Family

40. Thick-tipped Greta (Rare Stray from Mexico) 1 st U.S. Record - Greta Morgane

41. Malachite

42. Mexican Bluewing & Anacua Berries

43. Mexican Bluewing & Vasey Adelia

44. Theona Checkerspot

45. Queens Roosting on Granjeno

46. Queen and her Soldier BRUSHFOOTS BRUSHFOOTS

47. White Peacock

48. Zebra Heliconian, Violet-banded Skipper at Mexican Trixis

50. Guava Skipper

51. Mournful Duskywing

52. Emerald Aguna

53. Fiery Skipper

54. Whirlabout

55. Sachem

56. Common Mellana

57. Southern Skipperling

58. Other Butterflies

59. Checkered White

60. Bordered Patch

61. Lyside Sulphur

62. Reakirt’s Blue

64. Stop and See the Butterflies