Sighting for October 18, 2016
Rich Kostecke
private ranch in the Davis Mountains
Jeff Davis County, TX
- Pipevine Swallowtail 11
- Black Swallowtail 3
- Checkered White 13
- Orange Sulphur 4
- Southern Dogface 18
- Cloudless Sulphur 12
- Orange-barred Sulphur 8
- Lyside Sulphur 1
- Mexican Yellow 10
- Little Yellow 1
- Sleepy Orange 528
- Dainty Sulphur 48
- Gray Hairstreak 1
- Marine Blue 1
- Cyna Blue 1
- Reakirt's Blue 13
- Acmon Blue 2
- Fatal Metalmark 4
- Gulf Fritillary 1
- Variegated Fritillary 6
- Bordered Patch 3
- Elada Crescent 1
- Texan Crescent 3
- Vesta Crescent 200
- Painted Crescent 2
- Question Mark 1
- Mourning Cloak 1
- American Lady 6
- Painted Lady 22
- Red Admiral 13
- Common Buckeye 3
- Red-spotted Purple 1
- California Sister 12
- Tropical Leafwing 4
- Goatweed Leafwing 3
- Hackberry Emperor 6
- Tawny Emperor 1
- Canyonland Satyr 3
- Monarch 1
- Common Checkered-Skipper 118
- Tropical Least Skipper 1
- Orange Skipperling 19
- Fiery Skipper 1
- Sachem 9
- Orange Giant-Skipper 1
Bordered Patch
California Sister
Question Mark
Sleepy Oranges
Tropical Leafwing
Texan Crescent
Tropical Least Skipper
Orange Giant-Skipper
Mourning Cloak
Orange-barred Sulphur
Fatal Metalmark
Canyonland Satyr
Marine Blue
Acmon Blue
Cyna Blue
Spent the entire day surveying the ranch. Elevation 4000-5000+’. Covered about 6 miles, mostly in canyon bottom habitat, but spent some time in mid-elevation grassland and juniper-oak-pinyon woodland during the A.M. Common Checkered-Skippers more accurately classified as Common/White Checkered-skippers. Overall, big concentrations of butterflies at mudding sites.