Sighting for December 8, 2022
Dennis Vollmar
National Butterfly Center
Hidalgo County, TX
- 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
11am to 5 pm
low 80s partly sunny, wind 15-20 s-sse