Bordered Patch butterfly is a bright spot along the trail

This Bordered Patch butterfly was hiding in plain sight at the National Butterfly Center in South Texas.

They are sometimes called Sunflower Patch and like the lifestyle in South Texas.

Big-eyed skippers on a warm day in the Valley

Texas Powdered Skipper

I like the wing design on the Texas Powdered-Skipper spotted at the North American Butterfly Association's butterfly center in South Texas.

It is more showy than Celia's Roadside Skipper, which is on the checklist guests can pick up at Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park's La Familia Nature Center.

Celia's Roadside Skipper

On our daylong trek through the Valley parks, this white skipper also landed for us. I think it is a Laviana White Skipper.

White Skipper

Four orangish brush-footed butterflies at national center

Empress Leila

On a cloudy March day the bright butterflies looked even brighter at the National Butterfly Center. 

All of these orangey fliers are brush-footed butterflies or nymphalidae.

Sorry I didn't get pics of their little front legs that are covered in hairlike scales. Maybe next time I can get  them to show some leg.

American Lady

Pearl Crescent

Red Admiral. I really like the Red Admirals, but I'm never able to get a good pic.

Playing spot the moth

One of the National Butterfly Center trails.

We were walking along the upper trail at the National Butterfly Center in South Texas looking for butterflies. Yet we kept noticing the flutter of little moths that blended with the leaf litter.

The Thin-lined Owlet Moth seemed right at home along the shady woodsy path. Watch your step.