I finished the Maquenque photos and posted some of my June garden photos and still way behind on processing July garden photos, when I photographed 7 species of birds and 31 species of butterflies in my garden! To start the July garden photos, here’s a favorite . . .
The Royal Firetip – Mysoria barcastus (my gallery link) as one of those unusual butterflies in Costa Rica (Found only from Southern Mexico to Costa Rica) that I’ve been fortunate to see several times, all either in my garden or nearby here in Atenas. 🙂 Here’s 3 shots from this sighting in my garden last month (July 2026) . . .
¡Pura Vida!
And if interested, here’s my galleries for 3 very similar butterflies (cousins?) 🙂 . . .
- Red-headed Firetip
- Evans’ Firetip
- Pyrrhopygopsis Genus (The genus because the “experts” on iNaturalist couldn’t agree on the species for these two photos of the same individual.) I just keep finding unusual individual butterflies. 🙂