Little Farmer's Cay is an island in the

Bahamas The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to ...

, located in the district of Black Point. The island had a population of 66 at the 2010 census. Each year, the island hosts the Farmer's Cay First Friday in February Festival, a sailing

regatta Boat racing is a sport in which boats, or other types of watercraft, race on water. Boat racing powered by oars is recorded as having occurred in ancient Egypt, and it is likely that people have engaged in races involving boats and other wate ...

. Butterfly species found on the island include the fulvous hairstreak (''

Electrostrymon angelia ''Electrostrymon angelia'', the fulvous hairstreak, is a species of hairstreak in the butterfly family Lycaenidae Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species ...

''), scrub hairstreak (''Strymon columella''), martial hairstreak (''

Strymon martialis ''Strymon martialis'', known generally as martial scrub hairstreak, is a species of hairstreak in the butterfly family Lycaenidae Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with ove ...

''), long-tailed skipper (''

Urbanus proteus The long-tailed skipper (''Urbanus proteus'') is a spread-winged skipper butterfly found throughout tropical and subtropical South America, south to Argentina and north into the Eastern United States and southern Ontario. It cannot live in areas ...

''), broken dash skipper (''

Wallengrenia misera ''Wallengrenia otho'', the southern broken dash or broken dash skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It was originally described by Smith in 1797. It is found from eastern Texas and the southeastern United States, south through the W ...

'') and the

Gulf fritillary The Gulf fritillary or passion butterfly (''Dione vanillae'') is a bright orange butterfly in the subfamily Heliconiinae of the family Nymphalidae. That subfamily was formerly set apart as a separate family, the Heliconiidae. The Heliconiinae a ...

(''Agraulis vanillae insularis'').

References

Islands of the Bahamas {{Bahamas-geo-stub