Sighting for January 25, 2017
Karl and Dorothy Legler
Falcon State Park
Starr County, TX
- Black Swallowtail 1
- Checkered White 1
- Southern Dogface 2
- Large Orange Sulphur 2
- Lyside Sulphur 5
- Little Yellow 8
- Sleepy Orange 3
- Dainty Sulphur 10
- Gray Hairstreak 11
- Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 3
- Ceraunus Blue 13
- Reakirt's Blue 3
- Fatal Metalmark 2
- Gulf Fritillary 4
- Texan Crescent 2
- Vesta Crescent 7
- Phaon Crescent common
- Common Buckeye 1
- Soldier 6
- Funereal Duskywing 1
- White Checkered-Skipper 3
- Desert Checkered-Skipper 1
- Laviana White-Skipper 6
- Southern Skipperling 4
- Nysa Roadside-Skipper 1
- Eufala Skipper 4
Vesta Crescent
Black Swallowtail
Nysa Roadside-Skipper
26 species. 83 degrees. Not bad for the bottom of winter! (On Jan 7-8 the Valley had its 2nd below freezing event in 26 years.) Temps at Falcon were down to 27 degrees.
Highlights included Nysa Road-side Skipper, Desert Skipper, Funereal Duskywing and numbers of Gray Hairstreaks. Oddly we did not notice any American Snouts. No Cloudless Sulphurs.