National Butterfly Center, 6/2/15

Luciano found a Falcate Skipper at the National Butterfly Center yesterday so I thought I would run over and get one for my year list.  Turns out there were two pretty fresh ones.  The winter and spring rains are really paying off.

Since I had luck with the fiddlewood at Bentsen yesterday, I thought I would check them out here and they were blooming also.  A little searching turned up my first Curve-winged Metalmark for the year.

White-striped Longtails are hard to refuse!

Another Julia Heliconian.

I assume this is the same Silver Emperor that has been present for the past ten days or so.

Brown-banded Skippers are showing up at multiple locations.

Here's the list.

• Black Swallowtail 5
• Giant Swallowtail 3
• Great Southern White 15
• Large Orange Sulphur 5
• Lyside Sulphur 3
• Little Yellow 5
• Gray Hairstreak 5
• Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 6
• Dusky-blue Groundstreak 12
• American Snout 6
• Gulf Fritillary 4
• Julia Heliconian 1
• Zebra Heliconian 2
• Bordered Patch 8
• Elada Crescent 2
• Texan Crescent 4
• Phaon Crescent 20
• Pearl Crescent 5
• Common Buckeye 2
• White Peacock 3
• Common Mestra 1
• Tropical Leafwing 1
• Tawny Emperor 100
• Silver Emperor 1
• Monarch 20
• White-striped Longtail 1
• Brown Longtail 4
• Falcate Skipper 2
• Sickle-winged Skipper 4
• Brown-banded Skipper 1
• White Checkered-Skipper 4
• Tropical Checkered-Skipper10
• Laviana White-Skipper 15
• Fawn-spotted Skipper 3
• Clouded Skipper 8
• Fiery Skipper 1
• Whirlabout 1
• Common Mellana 2
• Nysa Roadside-Skipper 1
• Celia's Roadside-Skipper 3
• Eufala Skipper 5