Mike Rickard, leading a walk for the Texas Butterfly Festival, found an exciting and very different butterfly at Hugh Ramsey Park at around 5pm on the afternoon of November 1, 2015. Analysis of photos confirmed this to be the first US record of Michaelus ira (Shadowed Hairstreak).
Mike Rickard, leading a walk for the Texas Butterfly Festival, found an exciting and very different butterfly at Hugh Ramsey Park at around 5pm on the afternoon of November 1, 2015. Analysis of photos confirmed this to be the first US record of Michaelus ira (Shadowed Hairstreak).