Tuesday, May 13, 2025

National Butterfly Center, 5/11/25

Butterflies have picked up at the National Butterfly Center but only common stuff.  I was going to post a few photos but I forgot and cleared my SD card so here's the list of 36 species.  We missed out of the forecast rain here in Hidalgo County.  Locally it's dry and we have a long stretch of 100+ in the forecast so hopefully things won't fry too badly.

  • Giant Swallowtail 6
  • Southern Dogface 1
  • Large Orange Sulphur 6
  • Lyside Sulphur 20
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 3
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 4
  • Dusky-blue Groundstreak 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 5
  • Reakirt's Blue 20
  • Red-bordered Metalmark 1
  • American Snout 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 2
  • Bordered Patch 3
  • Elada Checkerspot 8
  • Texan Crescent 1
  • Phaon Crescent 6
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Mexican Bluewing 1
  • Tawny Emperor 1
  • Queen 60
  • White-striped Longtail 1
  • Brown Longtail 1
  • Sickle-winged Skipper 3
  • Funereal Duskywing 6
  • White Checkered-Skipper 15
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 8
  • Laviana White-Skipper 5
  • Julia's Skipper 1
  • Southern Skipperling 1
  • Fiery Skipper 6
  • Whirlabout 6
  • Sachem 1
  • Common Mellana 1
  • Celia's Roadside-Skipper 25
  • Eufala Skipper 3