January 2016 Sightings

Michael Sandell

7298 A1A, Crescent Beach, Florida
St. Johns County, FL

  • Sachem 1
  • Ocola Skipper 4

Michael Sandell

7298 A1A
St. Johns County, FL

  • Zebra Heliconian 1

Zebra Heliconian

Michael Sandell

St Augustine Beach
St. Johns County, FL

  • Pearl Crescent 1

Pearl Crescent

Jim Egbert

James Rd ,Foley
Baldwin County, AL

  • Cabbage White 4
  • Common Buckeye 1

Jim Egbert

Co.Rd.4 and Regency Rd, Gulf Shores
Baldwin County, AL

  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Monarch 3
  • Fiery Skipper 7
  • Ocola Skipper 2

Elizabeth Golden

Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park
Miami-Dade County, FL

A single Cuban Crescent was seen later in the day.

  • Cuban Crescent 1

Cuban Crescent

Elizabeth Golden

Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park
Miami-Dade County, FL

Sunny weather, temps 65-72 degrees.

  • Cassius Blue 5
  • Zebra Heliconian 14
  • White Peacock 3
  • Monarch 6
  • Queen 1
  • Mangrove Skipper 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1

Karl and Dorothy Legler

National Butterfly Center
Hidalgo County, TX

Temp 75. 30 species. Nice variety for winter! Far fewer numbers than a week or two ago. Highlights were Tailed Orange, Long-Tailed Skipper (photo by Dorothy), winter version of Clytie Ministreak, and Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak.

  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Large Orange Sulphur 2
  • Lyside Sulphur 1
  • Tailed Orange 2
  • Little Yellow 10
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Dainty Sulphur 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 3
  • Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak 1
  • Dusky-blue Groundstreak 4
  • Clytie Ministreak 1
  • Cassius Blue 2
  • Ceraunus Blue 1
  • Reakirt's Blue 2
  • American Snout 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 4
  • Phaon Crescent 2
  • Red Admiral 1
  • White Peacock 1
  • Queen 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • White Checkered-Skipper 4
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Laviana White-Skipper 1
  • Clouded Skipper 7
  • Southern Skipperling 4
  • Fiery Skipper 12
  • Sachem 3
  • Eufala Skipper 4

Long-tailed Skipper

Tailed Orange

Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak

Clytie Ministreak

Amelia Grimm

Key West Golf Course
Monroe County, FL

  • Brazilian Skipper 3

Jim Egbert

Plantation Rd Gulf Shores
Baldwin County, AL

Rain stop just before noon and the sun came out by 1pm. The day warmed to the low 70s and a few butterflies were able to take to the wing.

  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 1

Karl and Dorothy Legler

Santa Ana NWR
Hidalgo County, TX

17 species. Plus a small Orange flew through. Temp 71. Highlights were Mimosa Yellow, tiny Lantana Scrub-Hairstreaks zipping around, low and very fast, over their caterpillar food plant, Frogfruit.

  • Little Yellow 1
  • Mimosa Yellow 1
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 2
  • Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak 3
  • Ceraunus Blue 1
  • Fatal Metalmark 6
  • American Snout 1
  • Phaon Crescent 10
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Red Admiral 9
  • White Peacock 1
  • Queen common
  • Brown Longtail 1
  • Laviana White-Skipper 5
  • Fawn-spotted Skipper 1
  • Clouded Skipper 3
  • Fiery Skipper 5

Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak

Mimosa Yellow

Michael Sandell

7298 A1A
St. Johns County, FL

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 4

Long-tailed Skipper

Gulf Fritillary

Zebra Heliconian

Black Swallowtail

John Lampkin

Sun City Center Nature Trail
Hillsborough County, FL

With Linda Floyd.
10-12; cloudy 68-70
Cool temps and little nectar kept the skippers on the ground in camo.

  • Barred Yellow 1
  • Dorantes Longtail 2
  • Fiery Skipper 2

Fiery Skipper

Dorantes Longtail

Tom Palmer

Circle B Bar Reserve
Polk County, FL

Cloudy with temperatures dropping

  • Little Yellow 3
  • Zebra Heliconian 2
  • White Peacock 1
  • Carolina Satyr 1
  • Monarch 1

Jim Egbert

James Rd., Foley
Baldwin County, AL

Over night we had our 1st light freeze; it burned the Spanish Needles, but did on damage to the canola patches around the area.

  • Cabbage White 4
  • Common Buckeye 1

Jim Egbert

East Canal,and 3rd St.,Gulf Shores
Baldwin County, AL

  • Cloudless Sulphur 1

David H. Bartholomew

Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve
Santa Clara County, CA

Three Red Admirals were out enjoying the brief sunshine, 1:00-1:30. Overwinterers.

  • Red Admiral 3

Jim Egbert

Co Rd 4 and Regency at Ft Morgan Rd
Baldwin County, AL

After a cold morning,mid 30s it warmed into the mid 60s. Spanish Needles that had any protection;on higher ground in a wind break on a southern exposure did fine with the light freeze llantana also did well in the same areas, but in the exposed areas flowers were burned.

  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • American Lady 2
  • Monarch 3
  • Fiery Skipper 2

John Lampkin

Shell mound, Cockroach Bay
Hillsborough County, FL

With Jane Lampkin
Sunny 72 after morning downpours

  • Great Southern White 7
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Barred Yellow 9
  • Ceraunus Blue common
  • Gulf Fritillary 5
  • Phaon Crescent common
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Mangrove Buckeye 7
  • White Peacock common
  • Queen abundant
  • White Checkered-Skipper 3
  • Fiery Skipper common

Steven Glynn

Markham Park
Broward County, FL

Chasing a rare bird and noting butterflies. Near constant rain showers, but during brief moments of let up and slight clearing, butterflies were in surprising numbers.

  • Barred Yellow 2
  • Fulvous Hairstreak 1
  • Cassius Blue 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 3
  • Julia Heliconian 4
  • Zebra Heliconian common
  • White Peacock 5
  • Viceroy 2
  • Monarch 4
  • Queen 3
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Three-spotted Skipper 1
  • Eufala Skipper 1

Queen

Viceroy

Fulvous Hairstreak

Karl and Dorothy Legler

Falcon state park
Starr County, TX

8 species. Dead of winter down here (But 77 degrees!) Few flowers left, but some in butterfly garden and behind one of the restrooms.

  • Southern Dogface 5
  • Large Orange Sulphur 1
  • Lyside Sulphur 3
  • Little Yellow 2
  • Dainty Sulphur 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 2
  • Reakirt's Blue 2
  • American Snout 1

Southern Dogface

Lyside Sulphur

Steven Glynn

Modello Wayside Park
Miami-Dade County, FL

  • Great Southern White 2
  • Pink-spot Sulphur 2
  • Barred Yellow 2
  • Zebra Heliconian 4
  • White Peacock 3

Steven Glynn

Navy Wells Pineland Preserve
Miami-Dade County, FL

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Great Southern White 4
  • Barred Yellow 2
  • Little Yellow 3
  • Dainty Sulphur 3
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Bartram's Scrub-Hairstreak 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 4
  • Zebra Heliconian 2
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • White Peacock 5
  • Queen 1
  • Eufala Skipper 1

Jim Egbert

Plantation Rd Gulf Shores
Baldwin County, AL

  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Fiery Skipper 1

Karl and Dorothy Legler

Sabal Palm Sanctuary
Cameron County, TX

Temp 75. We had low expectations with very windy condition (30+). We were pleasantly surprised that 19 species were hanging on by their toenails! Highlights were Blue Metalmark, Mazan’s Scallopwing, Clytie Ministreak, and Common Melana.

  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Large Orange Sulphur 1
  • Lyside Sulphur 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Dusky-blue Groundstreak 4
  • Clytie Ministreak 2
  • Blue Metalmark 3
  • White Peacock 1
  • Carolina Satyr 4
  • Brown Longtail 1
  • Mazans Scallopwing 1
  • Sickle-winged Skipper 2
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 3
  • Laviana White-Skipper 2
  • Fawn-spotted Skipper 4
  • Clouded Skipper 4
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Sachem 1
  • Common Mellana 1

Cloudless Sulphur

Clytie Ministreak

John Lampkin

Bird Rookery Swamp, Naples
Collier County, FL

With Jane Lampkin
Stiff wind, 70

  • White Peacock 15
  • Three-spotted Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Brazilian Skipper 1

Least Skipper

Ron Smith / Randy Harrod

Fort De Soto Park
Pinellas County, FL

Daybreak temps were at 50. By noon it had reached 60-62. Photos by Smith.

  • Dainty Sulphur 1
  • Eastern Pygmy-Blue 12
  • Gulf Fritillary 3
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Phaon Crescent 14
  • American Lady 2
  • White Peacock 9
  • White Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Southern Skipperling 1
  • Fiery Skipper 4
  • Obscure Skipper 7

White Checkered-Skipper

American Lady

Michael Sandell

7298 A1A
St. Johns County, FL

  • Great Southern White 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 1

Karl and Dorothy Legler

Resaca de la Palma State Parkers
Cameron County, TX

18 species. Forecast was mostly sunny but it stayed overcast except for short period of occasional sun. Highlights: Blue Metalmark, Mimosa Yellow,female Common Melana, and a very worn Silver-banded Hairstreak.

  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Lyside Sulphur 1
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Mimosa Yellow 1
  • Silver-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 2
  • Ceraunus Blue 2
  • Reakirt's Blue 2
  • Blue Metalmark 7
  • Phaon Crescent 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Sickle-winged Skipper 2
  • White Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 6
  • Clouded Skipper 2
  • Fiery Skipper 1
  • Eufala Skipper 1

Little Yellow

Common Mellana

Mimosa Yellow

Blue Metalmark

Karl and Dorothy Legler

Frontera Audubon and Valley Nature Center, in Weslaco
Hidalgo County, TX

22 species. Sunny.

  • Southern Dogface 3
  • Large Orange Sulphur 1
  • Lyside Sulphur 2
  • Little Yellow 3
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 8
  • Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak 1
  • Dusky-blue Groundstreak 7
  • Cassius Blue 7
  • Reakirt's Blue 1
  • American Snout 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Queen 1
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 8
  • Laviana White-Skipper 1
  • Fawn-spotted Skipper 1
  • Clouded Skipper 2
  • Southern Skipperling 2
  • Fiery Skipper 10

Cassius Blue

Ken Wilson

Tijuana River Valley Regional Park
San Diego County, CA

Temp peaked at 66 degrees and winds were calm.

  • Marine Blue 2
  • Mourning Cloak 2
  • Monarch 6

Marine Blue

Randy Harrod

Schultz Preserve, Hillsborough Count, FL
Hillsborough County, FL

Park located near Gibsonton, FL off US 41 and Kracker Ave. Temps low 50’s and sunny

  • Barred Yellow 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Red Admiral 2
  • White Peacock 2

Karl and Dorothy Legler

Santa Anna NWR
Hidalgo County, TX

16 species. Highlights: Red-bordered Metalmark, Silver-banded Hairstreak and a male Great Southern White flew through.

  • Great Southern White 1
  • Southern Dogface 1
  • Large Orange Sulphur 1
  • Lyside Sulphur 3
  • Little Yellow 5
  • Silver-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 1
  • Red-bordered Metalmark 1
  • American Snout 1
  • Phaon Crescent 9
  • Red Admiral 9
  • Queen 3
  • White Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Laviana White-Skipper 2
  • Fawn-spotted Skipper 5
  • Fiery Skipper 1

Lyside Sulphur

Red-bordered Metalmark

Silver-banded Hairstreak

John Lampkin

Fort Desoto Park
Pinellas County, FL

With Jane Lampkin, Alan and Della Wells, Don and Liz Grozis. 67-72, sun & clouds.

  • Barred Yellow 2
  • Eastern Pygmy-Blue 9
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • Dorantes Longtail 1

Jim Egbert

east 24th Gulf Shores
Baldwin County, AL

warm,and cloudy with scattered shower.mid 60s

  • Cloudless Sulphur 1

David H. Bartholomew

Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve
Santa Clara County, CA

A single Spring Azure, first Blue seen in 2016 (for me).

  • Spring Azure 1

John Heyse

perkins canyon, mt. diablo
Contra Costa County, CA

57-61F
my first butterflies of the season

  • Mourning Cloak 3

Mourning Cloak

Tom Palmer

Stokes Preserve
Polk County, FL

  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Barred Yellow 2
  • Ceraunus Blue 2
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • White Peacock 1
  • Carolina Satyr 4
  • Whirlabout 2

Barbara Peck

Anderson River Park
Shasta County, CA

At least 2 Mourning Cloaks along the wooded trails. We have had a lot of rainy days. The past two however were sunny though very cool.

  • Mourning Cloak 2