Sighting for December 29, 2021
Karl and Dorothy Legler
National Butterfly Center in Mission
Hidalgo County, TX
- Pipevine Swallowtail 1
- Checkered White 1
- Orange Sulphur 1
- Southern Dogface 1
- Cloudless Sulphur 1
- Large Orange Sulphur 2
- Lyside Sulphur 1
- Little Yellow 6
- Goodson's Greenstreak 1
- Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 1
- Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak 1
- Dusky-blue Groundstreak 4
- Ceraunus Blue 1
- Reakirt's Blue 1
- Gulf Fritillary 1
- Julia Heliconian 1
- Zebra Heliconian 3
- Texan Crescent 3
- Phaon Crescent 3
- Question Mark 1
- American Lady 1
- Painted Lady 4
- Red Admiral 2
- White Peacock 4
- Silver Emperor 1
- Monarch 2
- Queen common
- Soldier 1
- White-striped Longtail 2
- Dorantes Longtail 2
- Brown Longtail 3
- Two-barred Flasher 1
- White Checkered-Skipper 2
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper 4
- Laviana White-Skipper 4
- Turk's-cap White-Skipper 1
- Clouded Skipper 10
- Southern Skipperling 2
- Fiery Skipper 2
- Whirlabout 1
- Southern Broken-Dash 1
- Sachem 2
- Purple-washed Skipper 2
Texan Crescent
Two-barred Flasher
Dusky-blue Groundstreak
Goodson's Greenstreak
Goodson's Greenstreak
Purple-washed Skipper
Purple-washed Skipper
White-striped Longtail
86 degrees. Latter part of the afternoon. Partly sunny to cloudy. 43 species seen. The Goodson’s Greenstreak with gray eye (when seen close up) and no tail is a very rare stray from Mexico. Exceptional warm weather in recent weeks, and days of strong Southerly winds, invited it here.