Sighting for December 21, 2018

Butterfly Walk at Estero

Estero Llano Grande State Park
Hidalgo County, TX

The afternoon Butterfly Walk was led by Rick Snider. About 3 hours. About a dozen of us. We found 32 species plus a dead Gray Hairstreak and dead Julia’s Skipper.

  • Southern Dogface common
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Large Orange Sulphur 3
  • Lyside Sulphur 4
  • Tailed Orange 1
  • Little Yellow 3
  • Sleepy Orange 2
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 2
  • Fatal Metalmark 1
  • Rounded Metalmark 1
  • American Snout 4
  • Gulf Fritillary 4
  • Zebra Heliconian 2
  • Red Admiral 2
  • White Peacock 4
  • Mexican Bluewing 1
  • Common Mestra 2
  • Tawny Emperor 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Queen common
  • Guava Skipper 1
  • Brown Longtail 2
  • Sickle-winged Skipper 2
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper common
  • Laviana White-Skipper common
  • Fawn-spotted Skipper 3
  • Clouded Skipper 6
  • Southern Skipperling 1
  • Fiery Skipper 4
  • Whirlabout 2
  • Eufala Skipper 2
  • Olive-clouded Skipper 2