Sighting for October 18, 2014
Daniel Jones
National Butterfly Center, Mission
Hidalgo County, TX
- Pipevine Swallowtail 1
- Giant Swallowtail 2
- Southern Dogface 10
- Cloudless Sulphur 2
- Large Orange Sulphur 6
- Lyside Sulphur 5
- Little Yellow 6
- Sleepy Orange 3
- Dainty Sulphur 3
- Gray Hairstreak 4
- Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 4
- Western Pygmy-Blue 20
- Ceraunus Blue 6
- Reakirt's Blue 1
- Fatal Metalmark 3
- Red-bordered Pixie 1
- American Snout 5
- Gulf Fritillary 6
- Julia Heliconian 1
- Zebra Heliconian 5
- Variegated Fritillary 1
- Vesta Crescent 2
- Phaon Crescent 5
- Pearl Crescent 4
- Painted Lady 1
- Red Admiral 1
- White Peacock 3
- Hackberry Emperor 2
- Tawny Emperor 5
- Monarch 2
- Queen 500
- Soldier 1
- Dorantes Longtail 1
- Brown Longtail 2
- Glazed Pellicia 2
- Sickle-winged Skipper 1
- Funereal Duskywing 1
- White Checkered-Skipper 2
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper 10
- Laviana White-Skipper 5
- Common Sootywing 1
- Julia's Skipper 5
- Fawn-spotted Skipper 3
- Clouded Skipper 20
- Southern Skipperling 3
- Fiery Skipper 20
- Whirlabout 1
- Southern Broken-Dash 2
- Sachem 4
- Common Mellana 1
- Celia's Roadside-Skipper 2
- Eufala Skipper 6
- Purple-washed Skipper 1
From 10:15 AM to 1:00 PM, I didn’t worry about numbers today hoping to see yesterday’s Gilbert’s Flasher.