Sighting for October 2, 2014
Daniel Jones
National Butterfly Center, Mission
Hidalgo County, TX
- Pipevine Swallowtail 1
- Southern Dogface 6
- Large Orange Sulphur 2
- Lyside Sulphur 2
- Little Yellow 5
- Silver-banded Hairstreak 1
- Gray Hairstreak 3
- Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 1
- Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak 1
- Western Pygmy-Blue 5
- Ceraunus Blue 12
- Fatal Metalmark 4
- American Snout 60
- Gulf Fritillary 2
- Zebra Heliconian 3
- Phaon Crescent 15
- White Peacock 2
- Tropical Leafwing 3
- Tawny Emperor 110
- Monarch 3
- Queen 100
- Soldier 1
- Sickle-winged Skipper 1
- Mournful Duskywing 1
- White Checkered-Skipper 15
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper 8
- Laviana White-Skipper 8
- Common Sootywing 1
- Julia's Skipper 2
- Clouded Skipper 6
- Fiery Skipper 25
- Southern Broken-Dash 6
- Common Mellana 2
- Celia's Roadside-Skipper 3
- Eufala Skipper 4
Sickle-winged Skipper
White Checkered-Skipper
Fatal Metalmark
Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak
11:00 AM - 2:20 PM, hot and humid with strong SE wind. Butterfly numbers about half that of three days earlier.