Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Daily pictures #100!, 2 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
Melanie...I had a couple of Long-Tailed (Urbanus proteus) a while back but haven't seen them lately. It's probably a Dorantes as they are common here. So are the brown longtails but those use grasses as a larval host.

We get the White-Striped Longtail that uses Snout Bean. Zilpa Longtail uses legume vines...in the nissolia family. Have to look that one up...can't recall the common plant name. On rare occasion we see Eight-spotted Longtail and Mexican Longtail and Agunas and some others.

Here are photos of the White-Striped Longtail (Chioides albofasciatus). The caterpillar has two yellow stripes running the length of its body. It has cute furry orange feet!



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