Sighting for February 1, 2022

Karl and Dorothy Legler

National Butterfly Center in Mission
Hidalgo County, TX

79 degrees and sunny. 33 species. First time here since 30-degree night. Still plenty of butterflies. The plain-looking skipper looks like its actually a male Whirlabout. NBC is currently temporarily closed.

  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Southern Dogface 2
  • Large Orange Sulphur 1
  • Lyside Sulphur 1
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Sleepy Orange 4
  • Dainty Sulphur 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 4
  • Dusky-blue Groundstreak 2
  • Ceraunus Blue 1
  • Reakirt's Blue 4
  • Fatal Metalmark 1
  • Red-bordered Metalmark 1
  • American Snout 1
  • Zebra Heliconian 3
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Vesta Crescent 1
  • Phaon Crescent 5
  • American Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 3
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Carolina Satyr 1
  • Queen 5
  • Funereal Duskywing 1
  • White Checkered-Skipper 3
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 3
  • Laviana White-Skipper 6
  • Clouded Skipper 3
  • Southern Skipperling 5
  • Fiery Skipper 2
  • Whirlabout 3
  • Eufala Skipper 3

Dusky-blue Groundstreak

Common Buckeye

Vesta Crescent

Whirlabout