Sighting for November 28, 2016

Daniel Jones

National Butterfly Center, Mission
Hidalgo County, TX

Mike Ricard strikes again with his discovery of an Alana White-Skipper, Heliopetes alana at the NBC. It is another first US record. The Spot-celled Sister has been present for several days.

  • Great Southern White 1
  • Southern Dogface 5
  • Cloudless Sulphur 5
  • Large Orange Sulphur 20
  • Lyside Sulphur 50
  • Mexican Yellow 1
  • Tailed Orange 3
  • Little Yellow 15
  • Mimosa Yellow 1
  • Sleepy Orange 3
  • Marius Hairstreak 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 3
  • Western Pygmy-Blue 8
  • Cassius Blue 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 6
  • American Snout 200
  • Gulf Fritillary 5
  • Julia Heliconian 2
  • Zebra Heliconian 2
  • Mexican Fritillary 5
  • Bordered Patch 3
  • Crimson Patch 8
  • Elada Checkerspot 1
  • Texan Crescent 1
  • Pale-banded Crescent 5
  • Vesta Crescent 4
  • Phaon Crescent 50
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Red Admiral 4
  • Common Buckeye 8
  • White Peacock 15
  • Common Mestra 10
  • Tawny Emperor 10
  • Monarch 1
  • Queen 200
  • Soldier 40
  • Brown Longtail 2
  • Glazed Pellicia 1
  • Sickle-winged Skipper 1
  • White Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 10
  • Laviana White-Skipper 6
  • Turk's-cap White-Skipper 5
  • Alana White-Skipper 1

Alana White-Skipper

Curve-winged Metalmark

Curve-winged Metalmark

Marius Hairstreak

Purple-washed Skipper

Spot-celled Sister

Alana White-Skipper