Sighting for October 25, 2016
Chris Tenney
National Butterfly Center, Mission, TX
Hidalgo County, TX
- Pipevine Swallowtail 15
- Giant Swallowtail 10
- Southern Dogface 4
- Cloudless Sulphur 9
- Large Orange Sulphur common
- Lyside Sulphur common
- Tailed Orange 3
- Little Yellow common
- Sleepy Orange 1
- Marius Hairstreak 1
- Silver-banded Hairstreak 1
- Gray Hairstreak 16
- Red-crescent Scrub-Hairstreak 1
- Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 6
- Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak 1
- Marine Blue 2
- Ceraunus Blue 12
- Reakirt's Blue 1
- Fatal Metalmark 3
- Red-bordered Metalmark 1
- Red-bordered Pixie 1
- American Snout superabundant
- Gulf Fritillary common
- Julia Heliconian 1
- Variegated Fritillary 1
- Mexican Fritillary 3
- Theona Checkerspot 2
- Bordered Patch common
- Crimson Patch 8
- Pale-banded Crescent 3
- Phaon Crescent 11
- Painted Lady 1
- Red Admiral 1
- Common Buckeye 3
- Tropical Buckeye 1
- White Peacock common
- Malachite 1
- Mexican Bluewing 4
- Common Mestra 8
- Gray Cracker 1
- Ruddy Daggerwing 1
- Tawny Emperor superabundant
- Monarch 3
- Queen superabundant
- Soldier 7
- White-striped Longtail 1
- Gold-spotted Aguna 1
- Tailed Aguna 1
- Long-tailed Skipper 1
- Dorantes Longtail 1
- Brown Longtail 15
- Two-barred Flasher 1
- Glazed Pellicia 3
- Sickle-winged Skipper 5
- Brown-banded Skipper 1
- White-patched Skipper 1
- White Checkered-Skipper common
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper 6
- Laviana White-Skipper common
- Turk's-cap White-Skipper 4
- Julia's Skipper 2
- Fawn-spotted Skipper 6
- Clouded Skipper 12
- Southern Skipperling 2
- Fiery Skipper abundant
- Whirlabout 5
- Southern Broken-Dash 3
- Sachem abundant
- Common Mellana 8
- Celia's Roadside-Skipper 2
- Eufala Skipper common
- Ocola Skipper abundant
- Purple-washed Skipper 1
9:30-1:00, 2:30-4:00; sunny AM, mostly cloudy PM
gray cracker found by Mike Bearce
gold-spotted aguna found by Dan Jones
tailed aguna perched under leaf