Sighting for November 16, 2014

Daniel Jones

National Butterfly Center, Mission
Hidalgo County, TX

After a couple of days in the 40’s the butterflies have rebounded nicely.

  • Checkered White 1
  • Southern Dogface 4
  • Cloudless Sulphur 3
  • Large Orange Sulphur 2
  • Little Yellow 6
  • Sleepy Orange 3
  • Dainty Sulphur 3
  • Great Purple Hairstreak 1
  • Marius Hairstreak 1
  • Silver-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 6
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 12
  • Dusky-blue Groundstreak 10
  • Western Pygmy-Blue 2
  • Ceraunus Blue 10
  • Reakirt's Blue 1
  • Fatal Metalmark 5
  • Red-bordered Pixie 10
  • American Snout 50
  • Gulf Fritillary 10
  • Zebra Heliconian 4
  • Variegated Fritillary 2
  • Bordered Patch 4
  • Elada Checkerspot 1
  • Vesta Crescent 3
  • Phaon Crescent 8
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Painted Lady 3
  • Red Admiral 8
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • White Peacock 6
  • Tropical Leafwing 1
  • Tawny Emperor 50
  • Monarch 5
  • Queen 500
  • Soldier 10
  • White-striped Longtail 1
  • Zilpa Longtail 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Brown Longtail 5
  • Texas Powdered-Skipper 1
  • Sickle-winged Skipper 2
  • White-patched Skipper 2
  • Funereal Duskywing 5
  • White Checkered-Skipper 20
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 5
  • Laviana White-Skipper 6
  • Violet-patched Skipper 1
  • Julia's Skipper 5
  • Fawn-spotted Skipper 3
  • Clouded Skipper 40
  • Southern Skipperling 6
  • Fiery Skipper 15
  • Southern Broken-Dash 3
  • Sachem 10
  • Common Mellana 1
  • Eufala Skipper 8
  • Hecebolus Skipper 1
  • Purple-washed Skipper 2

Violet-patched Skipper

Hecebolus Skipper

Great Purple Hairstreak

Hecebolus Skipper

Marius Hairstreak

Violet-patched Skipper

Hecebolus Skipper