Cloudless Sulphur and American Snouts

bugman

July 20th, 2006 at 12:00 am

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butterflies
Hi bugman,
I looked for these butterflies on your site, but couldn’t find them; one seems to look like a sulfur butterfly, but, it is all-yellow and doesn’t have the spots that the one on your site has. And about the other picture with the two small camouflaged butterflies, let me tell you that right now there is an invasion of epic proportions of this species of butterfly here in northern Mexico (Piedras Negras to be exact). I can’t drive without seeing thousands of butterflies of this same species floating all over the street. In my home garden alone there are like two thousand of these (and it is a relatively small garden). If it isn’t too much trouble I would love it if you could tell me more about this butterfly species, I’ve lived here for 17 years and had never seen so many butterflies in my life! Thanks,
-Humberto


Cloudless Sulphur	American Snouts

Hola Humberto,
Your Cloudless Sulphur, Phoebis sennae, is gorgeous. It is one of the least clouded we have ever seen. The male, like yours, is a clear yellow while the female has markings. The other butterflies are American Snouts, Libytheana carinenta. Our Butterflies through Binoculars, the West book claims: “Sometimes swarming in the millions (in the Rio Grande Valley), this is the chameleon of the butterfly world.”