February 2013 Sightings

Linda Cooper

Homestead, FL
Miami-Dade County, FL

A quick trip to Navy Wells County Park with Linda Evans. Buck and Linda Cooper
Buck found one aberrant Bartram’s Scrub-Hairstreak with very tiny white spots on both of the dorsal hindwing. Photos by Linda F. Cooper

  • Barred Yellow 1
  • Bartram's Scrub-Hairstreak 3
  • Ceraunus Blue 9
  • Gulf Fritillary 3
  • Zebra Heliconian 2
  • White Peacock 3
  • Queen 1
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 3

Bartram's Scrub-Hairstreak

Bartram's Scrub-Hairstreak

Dave Hanson

National Butterfly Center, Mission, TX
Hidalgo County, TX

Good start for February. Had 6 times as many butterfly species in January this year than last because weather was much better.
Lacey’s Scrub-Hairstreak discovered by Jan Dauphin. Photo by Dave Hanson

  • Checkered White 3
  • Southern Dogface 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Large Orange Sulphur 1
  • Lyside Sulphur 5
  • Mexican Yellow 1
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Lacey's Scrub-Hairstreak 1
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 2
  • Dusky-blue Groundstreak 1
  • Cassius Blue 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 5
  • Reakirt's Blue 5
  • Fatal Metalmark 1
  • American Snout abundant
  • Gulf Fritillary 2
  • Texan Crescent 4
  • Phaon Crescent common
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • Red Admiral abundant
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Common Mestra 1
  • Monarch 3
  • Queen 3
  • White-patched Skipper 1
  • White Checkered-Skipper 4
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 3
  • Laviana White-Skipper 2
  • Common Sootywing 1
  • Fawn-spotted Skipper 3
  • Clouded Skipper 2
  • Southern Skipperling 2
  • Fiery Skipper 3
  • Whirlabout 1
  • Sachem 4

Lacey's Scrub-Hairstreak

Linda Cooper

Camp Owaissa Bauer, Hattie Bauer Hammock, Mary Krome Park
Miami-Dade County, FL

Field trip for the Miami Blue NABA chapter with 21 participants led by Buck and Linda Cooper
Although we did not find a live Orange-barred Sulphur that day a dead one was found and photographed to show the dorsal wings. Photo by Sharyn Ladner.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Statira Sulphur 1
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Dainty Sulphur 21
  • Cassius Blue 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 16
  • Gulf Fritillary 3
  • Julia Heliconian 3
  • Zebra Heliconian 69
  • White Peacock 19
  • Ruddy Daggerwing 10
  • Monarch 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 2
  • Dorantes Longtail 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 3
  • Three-spotted Skipper 1
  • Clouded Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 4
  • Baracoa Skipper 8

Orange-barred Sulphur

Barbara Peck

Anderson River Park
Shasta County, CA

First of the Season butterflies

  • Mourning Cloak 2

Martin Reid

San Antonio Botanical Gardens
Bexar County, TX

Mexican Silverspot found by Sheridan Coffey during a birding visit to the gardens - extremely rare this far north in Texas.

  • Mexican Silverspot 1

Mexican Silverspot

David Hultgren

Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge
Hidalgo County, TX

  • Two-barred Flasher

Two-barred Flasher

Dave Hanson

National Butterfly Center, Mission, TX
Hidalgo County, TX

Another good 3 day run of butterflies: (Feb 3-5) 55 species recorded including this Pavon Emperor. Also seen and photographed by a visiting couple was a rare Gold-bordered Hairstreak. The rest of us tried later to find it but no luck. Maybe Tomorrow. Temps to be in low to mid 80’s rest of the week.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 2
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Checkered White common
  • Great Southern White common
  • Southern Dogface common
  • Cloudless Sulphur common
  • Large Orange Sulphur common
  • Lyside Sulphur common
  • Mexican Yellow 5
  • Little Yellow abundant
  • Sleepy Orange 4
  • Dainty Sulphur common
  • Great Purple Hairstreak 2
  • Gray Hairstreak common
  • Lacey's Scrub-Hairstreak 2
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak common
  • Dusky-blue Groundstreak 4
  • Clytie Ministreak 2
  • Cassius Blue 3
  • Ceraunus Blue common
  • Reakirt's Blue commonf
  • Fatal Metalmark common
  • American Snout superabundant
  • Gulf Fritillary common
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Mexican Fritillary common
  • Bordered Patch 3
  • Texan Crescent common
  • Vesta Crescent 5
  • Phaon Crescent common
  • Pearl Crescent 4
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • Painted Lady 2
  • Red Admiral abundant
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • White Peacock 3
  • Malachite 1
  • Mexican Bluewing 2
  • Common Mestra 2
  • Pavon Emperor 1
  • Monarch common
  • Queen common
  • Brown Longtail common
  • White-patched Skipper 3
  • White Checkered-Skipper common
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper common
  • Laviana White-Skipper common
  • Fawn-spotted Skipper common
  • Clouded Skipper common
  • Southern Skipperling common
  • Fiery Skipper common
  • Whirlabout 1
  • Southern Broken-Dash 1
  • Sachem 6
  • Eufala Skipper common

Pavon Emperor

Dave Hanson

National Butterfly Center, Mission, TX
Hidalgo County, TX

The rare Gold-bordered Hairstreak made two more appearances today. In addition to the previous days’ sightings and the Gold bordered Hairstreak, four other species were seen and photographed today.

  • Giant White
  • Gold-bordered Hairstreak
  • Tropical Leafwing
  • Tawny Emperor
  • Common Mellana

Gold-bordered Hairstreak

David Dortch

National Butterfly Center in Mission Texas
Hidalgo County, TX

My wife and I are fairly new to butterflies. We were lucky to get this photo after several people at the park helped us see this rarity.

  • Gold-bordered Hairstreak 1

Gold-bordered Hairstreak

Tom Palmer

Ocala National Forest
Marion County, FL

Plum trees past peak. Many had no blooms. Early bloom in FL this year. S. Dogface a little early, too.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Southern Dogface 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 5
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Dainty Sulphur 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Phaon Crescent 2
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • American Lady 1
  • Carolina Satyr 2
  • Dorantes Longtail 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 2
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • Zarucco Duskywing 1

Jim Flynn

National Butterfly Center
Hidalgo County, TX

  • Fatal Metalmark 1
  • Mazans Scallopwing 1
  • Funereal Duskywing 1

Mazans Scallopwing