Sighting for October 25, 2014
Linda Cooper
NBC gardens, Frontera Audubon, Santa Ana NWR, Rio Rico Rd, Yturria Brush Tract, private gardens
Hidalgo County, TX
- Pipevine Swallowtail
- Black Swallowtail
- Giant Swallowtail
- Ruby-spotted Swallowtail 2
- Checkered White
- Orange Sulphur 1
- Southern Dogface common
- Cloudless Sulphur abundant
- Large Orange Sulphur abundant
- Lyside Sulphur common
- Tailed Orange 6
- Little Yellow common
- Mimosa Yellow 2
- Sleepy Orange 3
- Dainty Sulphur 3
- Gray Hairstreak common
- Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak common
- Dusky-blue Groundstreak 2
- Western Pygmy-Blue common
- Cassius Blue 3
- Ceraunus Blue abundant
- Fatal Metalmark common
- Rounded Metalmark 1
- Red-bordered Metalmark common
- Red-bordered Pixie 6
- Curve-winged Metalmark 13
- American Snout common
- Gulf Fritillary common
- Julia Heliconian 2
- Zebra Heliconian 6
- Variegated Fritillary 1
- Bordered Patch common
- Crimson Patch
- Elada Crescent
- Pale-banded Crescent 2
- Vesta Crescent
- Phaon Crescent common
- Pearl Crescent
- Painted Lady
- Red Admiral
- Common Buckeye
- White Peacock common
- Malachite 1
- Mexican Bluewing 1
- Common Mestra 2
- Tropical Leafwing
- Hackberry Emperor
- Empress Leilia
- Tawny Emperor common
- Carolina Satyr
- Monarch
- Queen abundant
- Soldier
- Guava Skipper 6
- White-striped Longtail
- Zilpa Longtail 1
- Long-tailed Skipper 1
- Dorantes Longtail 1
- Brown Longtail
- Two-barred Flasher 2
- Mimosa Skipper
- Glazed Pellicia 2
- Texas Powdered-Skipper 3
- Sickle-winged Skipper common
- White-patched Skipper
- Mournful Duskywing
- Funereal Duskywing
- White Checkered-Skipper common
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper common
- Erichson's White-Skipper 1
- Laviana White-Skipper common
- Turk's-cap White-Skipper
- Julia's Skipper
- Fawn-spotted Skipper common
- Clouded Skipper abundant
- Southern Skipperling common
- Fiery Skipper common
- Whirlabout
- Southern Broken-Dash common
- Sachem common
- Common Mellana
- Nysa Roadside-Skipper 1
- Celia's Roadside-Skipper 3
- Eufala Skipper common
- Ocola Skipper 1
- Evans' Skipper 2
- Violet-banded Skipper 1
Malachite
Two-barred Flasher
Evans' Skipper
Erichson's White-Skipper
Texas Powdered-Skipper
Crimson Patch
Two-barred Flasher
Ruby-spotted Swallowtail
Violet-banded Skipper
Zilpa Longtail
Curve-winged Metalmark
Crimson Patch
This covers the week of Oct 25 thru Oct 31. Weather: low 60°-high 80° most of week. Front moved through Oct 31 with some rain and wind. Linda and Buck Cooper