Sighting for November 12, 2016

Rich Kostecke

Hornsby Bend
Travis County, TX

Lots of butterflies still coming in to Cowpen Daisy and plantings (lantana, Turk’s Cap, Salvia, etc.) around the bird blind. Common Checkered-skippers are more accurately classified as Common/White Checkered-skippers.

  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Southern Dogface 3
  • Cloudless Sulphur 6
  • Large Orange Sulphur 1
  • Tailed Orange 36
  • Little Yellow 21
  • Mimosa Yellow 1
  • Dainty Sulphur 1
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 3
  • Dusky-blue Groundstreak 1
  • Reakirt's Blue 1
  • Fatal Metalmark 31
  • American Snout 19
  • Gulf Fritillary 2
  • Julia Heliconian 4
  • Zebra Heliconian 5
  • Bordered Patch 2
  • Silvery Checkerspot 1
  • Texan Crescent 2
  • Phaon Crescent 3
  • Pearl Crescent 11
  • Question Mark 1
  • Red Admiral 30
  • Common Buckeye 13
  • Common Mestra 445
  • Goatweed Leafwing 2
  • Monarch 1
  • Queen 12
  • White-striped Longtail 3
  • Sickle-winged Skipper 8
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 18
  • Laviana White-Skipper 8
  • Clouded Skipper 7
  • Least Skipper 3
  • Southern Skipperling 1
  • Fiery Skipper 3
  • Whirlabout 1
  • Sachem 3
  • Eufala Skipper 7

Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak

Bordered Patch

Cloudless Sulphur

Common Mestra

Julia Heliconian

Fatal Metalmark

Phaon Crescent

Laviana White-Skipper

Mimosa Yellow

Texan Crescent

Tailed Orange

Zebra Heliconian

Sickle-winged Skipper

Silvery Checkerspot

White-striped Longtail