Sighting for October 16, 2016
Rich Kostecke
Hornsby Bend
Travis County, TX
- Pipevine Swallowtail 3
- Black Swallowtail 1
- Giant Swallowtail 2
- Southern Dogface 1
- Cloudless Sulphur 3
- Orange-barred Sulphur 1
- Large Orange Sulphur 2
- Tailed Orange 5
- Great Purple Hairstreak 2
- Gray Hairstreak 1
- Dusky-blue Groundstreak 6
- Fatal Metalmark 3
- American Snout 78
- Gulf Fritillary 5
- Julia Heliconian 11
- Bordered Patch 9
- Pearl Crescent 13
- Red Admiral 2
- Common Buckeye 1
- Common Mestra 58
- Goatweed Leafwing 1
- Hackberry Emperor 1
- Tawny Emperor 24
- Monarch 1
- Queen 7
- White-striped Longtail 10
- Sickle-winged Skipper 2
- Common Checkered-Skipper 5
- Laviana White-Skipper 1
- Clouded Skipper 32
- Fiery Skipper 1
- Southern Broken-Dash 1
- Sachem 2
- Broad-winged Skipper 1
- Celia's Roadside-Skipper 2
- Eufala Skipper 1
Common Mestra
Black Swallowtail
Cloudless Sulphur
Broad-winged Skipper
White-striped Longtail
Julia Heliconian
Queen
Orange-barred Sulphur
Tailed Orange
Fatal Metalmark
Laviana White-Skipper
Great Purple Hairstreak
Tawny Emperor
Clouded Skipper
Sickle-winged Skipper
Covered ~3 miles over 3 hrs (0900-1200). Warm, sunny morning. Nice stands of cowpen daisy, goldeneye, and frostweed in bloom. The 5 Common Checkered-skippers reported are more accurately classified as Common/White Checkered-skippers.