Sighting for February 5, 2013
Dave Hanson
National Butterfly Center, Mission, TX
Hidalgo County, TX
- Pipevine Swallowtail 2
- Black Swallowtail 1
- Giant Swallowtail 1
- Checkered White common
- Great Southern White common
- Southern Dogface common
- Cloudless Sulphur common
- Large Orange Sulphur common
- Lyside Sulphur common
- Mexican Yellow 5
- Little Yellow abundant
- Sleepy Orange 4
- Dainty Sulphur common
- Great Purple Hairstreak 2
- Gray Hairstreak common
- Lacey's Scrub-Hairstreak 2
- Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak common
- Dusky-blue Groundstreak 4
- Clytie Ministreak 2
- Cassius Blue 3
- Ceraunus Blue common
- Reakirt's Blue commonf
- Fatal Metalmark common
- American Snout superabundant
- Gulf Fritillary common
- Variegated Fritillary 1
- Mexican Fritillary common
- Bordered Patch 3
- Texan Crescent common
- Vesta Crescent 5
- Phaon Crescent common
- Pearl Crescent 4
- Mourning Cloak 1
- Painted Lady 2
- Red Admiral abundant
- Common Buckeye 3
- White Peacock 3
- Malachite 1
- Mexican Bluewing 2
- Common Mestra 2
- Pavon Emperor 1
- Monarch common
- Queen common
- Brown Longtail common
- White-patched Skipper 3
- White Checkered-Skipper common
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper common
- Laviana White-Skipper common
- Fawn-spotted Skipper common
- Clouded Skipper common
- Southern Skipperling common
- Fiery Skipper common
- Whirlabout 1
- Southern Broken-Dash 1
- Sachem 6
- Eufala Skipper common
Pavon Emperor
Another good 3 day run of butterflies: (Feb 3-5) 55 species recorded including this Pavon Emperor. Also seen and photographed by a visiting couple was a rare Gold-bordered Hairstreak. The rest of us tried later to find it but no luck. Maybe Tomorrow. Temps to be in low to mid 80’s rest of the week.