Sighting for December 3, 2022
Steven Glynn
National Butterfly Center Gardens
Hidalgo County, TX
- Pipevine Swallowtail 2
- Checkered White common
- Orange Sulphur 2
- Southern Dogface 1
- Cloudless Sulphur 3
- Orange-barred Sulphur 1
- Large Orange Sulphur 5
- Lyside Sulphur common
- Mexican Yellow 3
- Little Yellow common
- Sleepy Orange 1
- Dainty Sulphur 3
- Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 5
- Dusky-blue Groundstreak 2
- Western Pygmy-Blue 1
- Cyna Blue 2
- Ceraunus Blue 1
- Reakirt's Blue 3
- Fatal Metalmark 6
- Curve-winged Metalmark 1
- American Snout 8
- Gulf Fritillary 7
- Zebra Heliconian 2
- Mexican Fritillary 2
- Texan Crescent 2
- Phaon Crescent 12
- Question Mark 1
- Red Admiral common
- Common Buckeye 1
- Malachite 1
- Mexican Bluewing 3
- Tropical Leafwing 8
- Hackberry Emperor 10
- Empress Leilia 1
- Tawny Emperor 1
- Carolina Satyr 1
- Monarch 4
- Queen 15
- Soldier 1
- Guava Skipper 1
- Dorantes Longtail 1
- Brown Longtail 2
- Sickle-winged Skipper 1
- White Checkered-Skipper common
- Laviana White-Skipper common
- Fawn-spotted Skipper 2
- Clouded Skipper common
- Southern Skipperling 1
- Fiery Skipper 9
- Southern Broken-Dash 3
- Sachem 1
- Common Mellana 1
- Eufala Skipper 8
- Purple-washed Skipper 1
Zebra Heliconian
Carolina Satyr
Soldier
Purple-washed Skipper
Orange-barred Sulphur
Mexican Yellow
Fawn-spotted Skipper
Brown Longtail
Cyna Blue
Guava Skipper
Lack of sunshine didn’t keep butterflies from flying during a warm and humid day. 54 species in December was a nice day of finds.