National Butterfly Center, 9/30/14

Well I finally got out to the National Butterfly Center for the first time in a month.  With the recent rains the numbers have really increased although there was nothing very interesting.  The balloon vine is blooming and has a few Silver-banded Hairstreaks.

The numbers of Fiery Skippers were way up and they're gonna try to keep it that way.

Here's two shots of a Common Mellana.  I didn't realize the female has all those white spots.

I'll gladly sacrifice a Phaon Crescent to keep this robber fly happy.

A big fat Gulf Fritillary.

 My first Monarch for the fall.

Here's today's list.

• Pipevine Swallowtail 1
• Giant Swallowtail 1
• Southern Dogface 5
• Large Orange Sulphur 6
• Lyside Sulphur 5
• Little Yellow 4
• Mimosa Yellow 1
• Silver-banded Hairstreak 4
• Western Pygmy-Blue 12
• Ceraunus Blue 5
• Reakirt's Blue 1
• Rounded Metalmark 1
• Red-bordered Metalmark 1
• American Snout 80
• Gulf Fritillary 4
• Zebra Heliconian 6
• Variegated Fritillary 1
• Phaon Crescent 15
• Red Admiral 1
• White Peacock 2
• Empress Leilia 1
• Tawny Emperor 10
• Monarch 3
• Queen 180
• Soldier 3
• White Checkered-Skipper 3
• Tropical Checkered-Skipper 12
• Laviana White-Skipper 6
• Common Sootywing 4
• Julia's Skipper 8
• Clouded Skipper 35
• Southern Skipperling 6
• Fiery Skipper 25
• Whirlabout 2
• Southern Broken-Dash 12
• Common Mellana 5
• Celia's Roadside-Skipper 10
• Eufala Skipper 4