Sighting for March 31, 2014
Jeffrey Glassberg
National Butterfly Center
Hidalgo County, TX
- Pipevine Swallowtail 10
- Black Swallowtail 25
- Giant Swallowtail 5
- Florida White 3
- Checkered White 30
- Orange Sulphur 1
- Southern Dogface 4
- Yellow Angled-Sulphur 1
- Cloudless Sulphur 1
- Large Orange Sulphur 3
- Lyside Sulphur 5
- Little Yellow 15
- Sleepy Orange 4
- Dainty Sulphur 2
- Gray Hairstreak 2
- Dusky-blue Groundstreak 4
- Western Pygmy-Blue 1
- Cyna Blue 9
- Reakirt's Blue 6
- Fatal Metalmark 1
- American Snout 5
- Gulf Fritillary 8
- Mexican Fritillary 1
- Bordered Patch 5
- Crimson Patch 2
- Elada Checkerspot 7
- Texan Crescent 2
- Vesta Crescent 10
- Phaon Crescent 25
- Question Mark 1
- American Lady 30
- Red Admiral 12
- Tropical Leafwing 3
- Tawny Emperor 60
- Carolina Satyr 2
- Monarch 6
- Queen 8
- White-striped Longtail 1
- Brown Longtail 4
- Two-barred Flasher 1
- Texas Powdered-Skipper 1
- Brown-banded Skipper 1
- Funereal Duskywing 4
- White Checkered-Skipper 20
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper 5
- Laviana White-Skipper 7
- Common Streaky-Skipper 2
- Common Sootywing 2
- Fawn-spotted Skipper 1
- Clouded Skipper 15
- Southern Skipperling 2
- Southern Broken-Dash 3
- Sachem 15
- Celia's Roadside-Skipper 1
- Eufala Skipper 2
56 species; images are from March 27 when 114 Head Start kids visited the NBC. You can see the profusion of wildflowers blooming in the Geoffrey McAllen Memorial Texas Grassland and Wildflower Refugium that surrounds the Visitors Pavilion. The other photo is along the Hackberry Trail. A Monarch was laying eggs on a Tropical Milkweed.