February 2013 Sightings
Linda Cooper
Homestead, FL
Miami-Dade County, FL
- 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
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
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
- 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
David Hultgren
Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge
Hidalgo County, TX
- 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
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
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
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
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