Sighting for April 2, 2019

Mark and Holly Salvato

Big Bend National Park
Brewster County, TX

With Steve Moore and Mike Bearce.

Visited several areas in the Park, including the Chisos Basin, Green Gulch, Window Trail and Sam Nail Ranch, among others.

We had two Big Bend Scrub-Hairstreaks (Strymon solitario).

Streaky-Skippers appeared to us to be Scarce Streaky-Skippers, but it may be best to refer to them as Celotes sp.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 3
  • Checkered White 20
  • Southern Dogface 12
  • Lyside Sulphur 10
  • Mexican Yellow 8
  • Sleepy Orange 15
  • Dainty Sulphur 30
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 1
  • Marine Blue 1
  • Cyna Blue 1
  • Reakirt's Blue 30
  • Fatal Metalmark 1
  • Rawson's Metalmark 2
  • American Snout 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 40
  • Theona Checkerspot 15
  • Texan Crescent 2
  • Vesta Crescent 4
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Tropical Buckeye 2
  • California Sister 6
  • Monarch 8
  • Northern Cloudywing 1
  • Golden-headed Scallopwing 1
  • Funereal Duskywing 1
  • White Checkered-Skipper 12
  • Scarce Streaky-Skipper 3
  • Orange Skipperling 3
  • Python Skipper 1

Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak

Scarce Streaky-Skipper

Orange Skipperling

Theona Checkerspot

Texan Crescent

Theona Checkerspot

Python Skipper

Cyna Blue

Funereal Duskywing

Cyna Blue

Golden-headed Scallopwing