Sighting for November 9, 2013
Linda Cooper
Hidalgo Co - National Butterfly Center, Estero Llano Grande SP; Cameron Co - Resaca de la Palma SP, Boca Chica, Sabal Palm; Starr County- Roma, Falcon Heights, Falcon SP
Hidalgo County, TX
- Pipevine Swallowtail
- Giant Swallowtail
- Checkered White
- Great Southern White
- Southern Dogface abundant
- Cloudless Sulphur common
- Large Orange Sulphur abundant
- Statira Sulphur 1
- Lyside Sulphur common
- Boisduval's Yellow
- Mexican Yellow
- Tailed Orange
- Little Yellow abundant
- Mimosa Yellow
- Sleepy Orange common
- Dainty Sulphur abundant
- Great Purple Hairstreak
- Silver-banded Hairstreak
- Xami Hairstreak
- Zebra Cross-streak 2
- Gray Hairstreak
- Red-crescent Scrub-Hairstreak
- Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak common
- Dusky-blue Groundstreak
- Clytie Ministreak common
- Western Pygmy-Blue common
- Marine Blue
- Ceraunus Blue abundant
- Reakirt's Blue
- Fatal Metalmark
- Rounded Metalmark
- Red-bordered Metalmark
- Blue Metalmark
- Red-bordered Pixie
- American Snout abundant
- Gulf Fritillary
- Zebra Heliconian
- Variegated Fritillary
- Mexican Fritillary
- Theona Checkerspot common
- Bordered Patch
- Crimson Patch
- Elada Checkerspot abundant
- Texan Crescent
- Vesta Crescent common
- Phaon Crescent common
- Pearl Crescent
- Question Mark
- American Lady
- Red Admiral
- Common Buckeye
- Tropical Buckeye
- White Peacock abundant
- Band-celled Sister
- Mexican Bluewing
- Common Mestra common
- Ruddy Daggerwing
- Tropical Leafwing
- Goatweed Leafwing 1
- Hackberry Emperor
- Empress Leilia
- Tawny Emperor abundant
- Carolina Satyr
- Monarch 2
- Queen abundant
- Soldier common
- Guava Skipper 1
- Hammock Skipper 1
- White-striped Longtail
- Zilpa Longtail
- Long-tailed Skipper
- Dorantes Longtail
- Brown Longtail abundant
- Coyote Cloudywing
- Mimosa Skipper
- Mazans Scallopwing
- Texas Powdered-Skipper 1
- Sickle-winged Skipper abundant
- Brown-banded Skipper 1
- White-patched Skipper common
- White Checkered-Skipper abundant
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper common
- Desert Checkered-Skipper
- Erichson's White-Skipper 5
- Laviana White-Skipper common
- Saltbush Sootywing 2
- Fawn-spotted Skipper common
- Clouded Skipper abundant
- Southern Skipperling common
- Fiery Skipper common
- Whirlabout
- Southern Broken-Dash
- Sachem
- Common Mellana
- Eufala Skipper common
- Olive-clouded Skipper
- Brazilian Skipper 2
- Obscure Skipper abundant
- Ocola Skipper
Blue Metalmark
Hammock Skipper
Erichson's White-Skipper
Statira Sulphur
Texas Powdered-Skipper
Zebra Cross-streak
Tropical Buckeye
Xami Hairstreak
Zebra Cross-streak
Week of Nov. 3 - 9; covered areas in Hidalgo, Cameron and Starr Counties. Some trips part of Texas Butterfly Festival. One cold rainy day but rest of week warm and mostly sunny. 99 species for the week. 2nd & 3rd US records for Zebra Cross-streak. Linda and Buck Cooper