Sighting for February 24, 2016

Karl and Dorothy Legler

National Butterfly Center in Mission, TX
Hidalgo County, TX

74, sunny and very windy. Difficult to photograph. Butterfly numbers have increased. A wonderful place!! 32 species.

  • Great Southern White 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Lyside Sulphur 1
  • Little Yellow 7
  • Gray Hairstreak 4
  • Red-crescent Scrub-Hairstreak 1
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak common
  • Dusky-blue Groundstreak common
  • Reakirt's Blue 3
  • Fatal Metalmark 2
  • American Snout 9
  • Gulf Fritillary 2
  • Texan Crescent 1
  • Phaon Crescent common
  • Red Admiral 3
  • White Peacock 1
  • Band-celled Sister 1
  • Queen 5
  • Brown Longtail 1
  • Funereal Duskywing 1
  • White Checkered-Skipper common
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper common
  • Laviana White-Skipper common
  • Common Streaky-Skipper 1
  • Fawn-spotted Skipper 4
  • Clouded Skipper 4
  • Southern Skipperling common
  • Fiery Skipper common
  • Southern Broken-Dash 2
  • Sachem 6
  • Common Mellana 2
  • Eufala Skipper common

Texan Crescent

Band-celled Sister

Band-celled Sister

Red-crescent Scrub-Hairstreak

Common Streaky-Skipper