Sighting for February 26, 2023

Alan Schmierer

National Butterfly Center
Hidalgo County, TX

84 degrees, partly cloudy, windy

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 3
  • Giant Swallowtail 4
  • Checkered White 25
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Southern Dogface 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Large Orange Sulphur 1
  • Lyside Sulphur 2
  • Little Yellow 15
  • Mimosa Yellow 2
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 2
  • Dusky-blue Groundstreak 1
  • Reakirt's Blue 2
  • Fatal Metalmark 2
  • American Snout 10
  • Theona Checkerspot 2
  • Bordered Patch 4
  • Elada Checkerspot 1
  • Texan Crescent 50
  • Pale-banded Crescent 1
  • Phaon Crescent 2
  • Red Admiral 15
  • Red-spotted Admiral 10
  • Band-celled Sister 2
  • Mexican Bluewing 1
  • Common Mestra 2
  • Tropical Leafwing 7
  • Empress Leilia 4
  • Tawny Emperor 7
  • Carolina Satyr 2
  • Monarch 3
  • Queen 15
  • White-striped Longtail 1
  • White Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 20
  • Laviana White-Skipper 2
  • Fawn-spotted Skipper 1
  • Clouded Skipper 15
  • Fiery Skipper 7
  • Whirlabout 1
  • Southern Broken-Dash 3
  • Common Mellana 1

Clouded Skipper

Fiery Skipper

Mimosa Yellow

Band-celled Sister

Southern Broken-Dash

Pale-banded Crescent

Tropical Checkered-Skipper