Sighting for December 8, 2022

Dennis Vollmar

National Butterfly Center
Hidalgo County, TX

11am to 5 pm
low 80s partly sunny, wind 15-20 s-sse

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 4
  • Checkered White 5
  • Giant White 7
  • Orange Sulphur common
  • Southern Dogface common
  • White Angled-Sulphur 1
  • Large Orange Sulphur 6
  • Lyside Sulphur common
  • Mexican Yellow 5
  • Little Yellow common
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 3
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 1
  • Dusky-blue Groundstreak 2
  • Western Pygmy-Blue 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 8
  • Reakirt's Blue 2
  • Fatal Metalmark 7
  • Curve-winged Metalmark 8
  • American Snout common
  • Gulf Fritillary 5
  • Mexican Silverspot 2
  • Zebra Heliconian 3
  • Texan Crescent 2
  • Phaon Crescent 8
  • American Lady 5
  • Painted Lady 6
  • Red Admiral common
  • Common Buckeye 4
  • Malachite 3
  • Mexican Bluewing 2
  • Common Mestra 3
  • Ruddy Daggerwing 1
  • Tropical Leafwing common
  • Empress Leilia 1
  • Tawny Emperor common
  • Monarch 7
  • Queen common
  • Dorantes Longtail 7
  • Texas Powdered-Skipper 1
  • White Checkered-Skipper common
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper common
  • Laviana White-Skipper abundant
  • Julia's Skipper 1
  • Clouded Skipper abundant
  • Southern Skipperling 1
  • Fiery Skipper 5
  • Whirlabout 2
  • Southern Broken-Dash 5
  • Sachem 2
  • Common Mellana common

Dusky-blue Groundstreak

Malachite

White Angled-Sulphur

Empress Leilia

Mexican Yellow

Common Mestra

Gray Hairstreak

Texas Powdered-Skipper

Southern Skipperling