Sighting for December 9, 2015

Karl and Dorothy Legler

National Butterfly Center at Mission, TX
Hidalgo County, TX

30 species. Highlights were Reakirt’s Blue, Tailed Orange, Clytie Ministreak, more Gulf Fritillaries and Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak.

  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Large Orange Sulphur 1
  • Lyside Sulphur 1
  • Tailed Orange 1
  • Little Yellow common
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak common
  • Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak 1
  • Dusky-blue Groundstreak 1
  • Clytie Ministreak 1
  • Western Pygmy-Blue 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 2
  • Reakirt's Blue 1
  • Fatal Metalmark 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 4
  • White Peacock common
  • Monarch 1
  • Queen common
  • Soldier 1
  • Brown Longtail 2
  • Sickle-winged Skipper common
  • White Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper common
  • Laviana White-Skipper 3
  • Clouded Skipper common
  • Southern Skipperling 2
  • Fiery Skipper common
  • Whirlabout 1
  • Sachem 1
  • Eufala Skipper 4

Dusky-blue Groundstreak

Gulf Fritillary

Tailed Orange