Saturday, May 23, 2015

National Butterfly Center, 5/23/15

Another fine day at the National Butterfly Center netted fifty species and there would have been more had the rain not come.  My first Ornythion Swallowtail for the year was on the new zinnia patch.  They are starting to attract a lot of butterflies.



Mike Rickard found this Glazed Pellicia which is normally a fall butterfly.


Another first for the year for me was this Pale-banded Crescent.


And there was my first Soldier for the year.



Black Swallowtail 3
  • Giant Swallowtail 2
  • Ornythion Swallowtail 1
  • Checkered White 1
  • Great Southern White 8
  • Southern Dogface 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Large Orange Sulphur 5
  • Lyside Sulphur 5
  • Boisduval's Yellow 1
  • Little Yellow 3
  • Gray Hairstreak 3
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 5
  • Dusky-blue Groundstreak 5
  • Reakirt's Blue 3
  • Red-bordered Metalmark 1
  • American Snout 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 2
  • Julia Heliconian 2
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Bordered Patch 6
  • Crimson Patch 2
  • Elada Crescent 10
  • Texan Crescent 5
  • Pale-banded Crescent 1
  • Phaon Crescent 25
  • Pearl Crescent 5
  • White Peacock 1
  • Banded Peacock 1
  • Tropical Leafwing 2
  • Tawny Emperor 20
  • Queen 25
  • Soldier 2
  • White-striped Longtail 1
  • Brown Longtail 4
  • Glazed Pellicia 1
  • Sickle-winged Skipper 6
  • White-patched Skipper 1
  • White Checkered-Skipper 10
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 5
  • Laviana White-Skipper 10
  • Common Sootywing 5
  • Julia's Skipper 2
  • Fawn-spotted Skipper 5
  • Clouded Skipper 12
  • Southern Skipperling 1
  • Fiery Skipper 3
  • Whirlabout 1
  • Celia's Roadside-Skipper 6
  • Eufala Skipper 3