Photos from a visit to the Corpus Christi / South Texas Botanical Gardens

It's taken me a while to get around to processing photos from our weekend in Corpus in late October. I was so busy assembling our Halloween costumes and getting ready to not cook for Thanksgiving that the photos just sat on my hard drive.

So finally, here are some of the creatures we found in the gardens, which has been renamed the South Texas Botanical Gardens and Nature Center. Enjoy!

A longtail skipper on the mist flowers. Skippers differ from other types of butterflies in several ways. One is that their antennae are hooked instead of clubbed; all butterflies use their antennae to detect odors and wind speed.

The mist flowers were very popular with caterpillars, too. I have to look this one up.

I love dragonflies the most. Look at this one's cute little face!

There were dozens of green tree frogs snoozing in the fronds of palm trees bordering the lake.

One of a pair of Great Southern White sulphurs that fluttered through the grasses next to the trail. I got a lot of photos of blurry white blobs before this one settled long enough for me to take its photo. Note the turquoise-colored clubs at the end of the antennae.