Sighting for October 26, 2013
Linda Cooper
National Butterfly Center, Bentsen Rio Grande Valley State Park, Edinburg Wetlands, Estero Llano Grande State Park
Hidalgo County, TX
- Pipevine Swallowtail
- Black Swallowtail
- Giant Swallowtail
- Checkered White
- Great Southern White
- Orange Sulphur 2
- Southern Dogface common
- Cloudless Sulphur common
- Large Orange Sulphur common
- Lyside Sulphur common
- Mexican Yellow 1
- Tailed Orange
- Little Yellow
- Mimosa Yellow
- Sleepy Orange
- Dainty Sulphur
- Silver-banded Hairstreak
- Gray Hairstreak
- Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak common
- Dusky-blue Groundstreak
- Clytie Ministreak
- Western Pygmy-Blue common
- Cassius Blue
- Marine Blue
- Ceraunus Blue common
- Reakirt's Blue 2
- Fatal Metalmark
- Rounded Metalmark 2
- Red-bordered Metalmark
- Red-bordered Pixie
- American Snout superabundant
- Gulf Fritillary common
- Julia Heliconian 1
- Zebra Heliconian
- Variegated Fritillary
- Mexican Fritillary common
- Theona Checkerspot
- Bordered Patch
- Crimson Patch common
- Elada Crescent
- Texan Crescent
- Pale-banded Crescent
- Vesta Crescent
- Phaon Crescent common
- Pearl Crescent
- Red Admiral 3
- Common Buckeye 2
- White Peacock abundant
- Malachite 1
- Mexican Bluewing
- Common Mestra abundant
- Gray Cracker 2
- Ruddy Daggerwing 4
- Tropical Leafwing
- Empress Leilia
- Tawny Emperor superabundant
- Monarch 2
- Queen superabundant
- Soldier
- White-striped Longtail
- Zilpa Longtail
- Long-tailed Skipper
- Dorantes Longtail
- Brown Longtail common
- Coyote Cloudywing 1
- Potrillo Skipper 1
- Mimosa Skipper 1
- Acacia Skipper 1
- Texas Powdered-Skipper 1
- Sickle-winged Skipper common
- Brown-banded Skipper 1
- White-patched Skipper common
- Horace's Duskywing 1
- Mournful Duskywing
- Funereal Duskywing
- White Checkered-Skipper abundant
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper common
- Desert Checkered-Skipper
- Erichson's White-Skipper 1
- Laviana White-Skipper common
- Turk's-cap White-Skipper common
- Common Sootywing 2
- Julia's Skipper
- Fawn-spotted Skipper common
- Clouded Skipper common
- Southern Skipperling common
- Fiery Skipper common
- Whirlabout
- Southern Broken-Dash
- Sachem
- Common Mellana
- Celia's Roadside-Skipper 1
- Eufala Skipper common
- Ocola Skipper
- Hecebolus Skipper 1
- Violet-banded Skipper 2
Falcate Skipper
Crimson Patch
Potrillo Skipper
Texas Powdered-Skipper
Acacia Skipper
Erichson's White-Skipper
Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak
Malachite
Coyote Cloudywing
This list is from Oct. 19 thru Oct. 26 and a compilation of sightings at various locations, mostly at National Butterfly Center, Mission TX. Temp range has been mid-80s to low 90s. Buck and Linda Cooper