Sighting for December 23, 2015

Karl and Dorothy Legler

National Butterfly Center
Hidalgo County, TX

42 species. Santa has brought lots of butterflies to the NBC! (The White Scrub-Hairstreak was found by others.) Our first Pearly-gray Hairstreak.

  • Southern Dogface 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur common
  • Large Orange Sulphur common
  • Lyside Sulphur 2
  • Little Yellow 10
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Dainty Sulphur 1
  • Silver-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 3
  • White Scrub-Hairstreak 1
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak common
  • Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak 4
  • Dusky-blue Groundstreak common
  • Pearly-gray Hairstreak 1
  • Clytie Ministreak 6
  • Ceraunus Blue common
  • Reakirt's Blue 6
  • Fatal Metalmark 3
  • American Snout 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 2
  • Phaon Crescent 5
  • Red Admiral 1
  • White Peacock 2
  • Tawny Emperor 1
  • Monarch 2
  • Queen common
  • Soldier 4
  • Brown Longtail common
  • Two-barred Flasher 1
  • Sickle-winged Skipper 3
  • White Checkered-Skipper common
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Laviana White-Skipper common
  • Fawn-spotted Skipper 1
  • Clouded Skipper common
  • Southern Skipperling 5
  • Fiery Skipper common
  • Whirlabout 1
  • Southern Broken-Dash 1
  • Sachem 3
  • Common Mellana 2
  • Eufala Skipper common

Clytie Ministreak

Pearly-gray Hairstreak

Reakirt's Blue

Two-barred Flasher