Sighting for November 27, 2022

Karl and Dorothy Legler

National Butterfly Center in Mission, TX
Hidalgo County, TX

A couple of days after nearly 2 weeks of mostly cold, cloudy, windy, rainy weather. But there were plenty of butterflies here! In a few hours walk, we found 37 species.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Checkered White 10
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Southern Dogface 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Large Orange Sulphur 10
  • Lyside Sulphur common
  • Little Yellow common
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Dainty Sulphur 4
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 4
  • Fatal Metalmark 1
  • American Snout common
  • Gulf Fritillary common
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Texan Crescent 2
  • Phaon Crescent common
  • American Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 12
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • White Peacock 2
  • Empress Leilia 1
  • Tawny Emperor 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Queen common
  • White Checkered-Skipper 10
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 7
  • Laviana White-Skipper common
  • Clouded Skipper 5
  • Southern Skipperling 2
  • Fiery Skipper 4
  • Whirlabout 1
  • Southern Broken-Dash 1
  • Eufala Skipper 2

Variegated Fritillary

Fatal Metalmark

Texan Crescent

Large Orange Sulphur