Thursday, October 15, 2015

National Butterfly Center, 10/15/15

This morning I ran over to the National Butterfly Center to see what the recent rains had brung.  Mike Rickard and Ginny Musgrave showed up as I had half expected and Mike proceeded to find this beat up Hackberry Emperor.  We only see a few each year at the NBC.


Chris Tenney was in the gardens in back of the visitor's center.  He's been all over the country working on his big year in which he attempting to see 600 species of butterflies.  Chris told us he's at 501 which is pretty amazing.  He found this Violet-Banded Skipper shortly before I arrived.


There was nothing really rare today but lots of stuff I had not seen for a while like my first Purple-washed Skipper for the year.


Long-tailed Skippers have been hard to come by this year.



An extremely worn Zilpa Longtail.


And a Dorantes Longtail.


Turk's-cap White-Skipper was right in the mallows where I usually get one but it's been a while.


A really pretty Large Orange Sulphur.


  And a smokin' White Peacock.


  • Pipevine Swallowtail 6
  • Giant Swallowtail 3
  • Southern Dogface 6
  • Large Orange Sulphur 15
  • Lyside Sulphur 8
  • Mimosa Yellow 2
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 3
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 3
  • Western Pygmy-Blue 3
  • Cassius Blue 2
  • Ceraunus Blue 1
  • American Snout 5
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Bordered Patch 4
  • Phaon Crescent 4
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 4
  • White Peacock 2
  • Hackberry Emperor 1
  • Tawny Emperor 60
  • Monarch 4
  • Queen 2
  • Soldier 200
  • Zilpa Longtail 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Dorantes Longtail 1
  • Brown Longtail 5
  • Funereal Duskywing 1
  • White Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 4
  • Laviana White-Skipper 6
  • Turk's-cap White-Skipper 1
  • Julia's Skipper 1
  • Fawn-spotted Skipper 1
  • Clouded Skipper 3
  • Whirlabout 5
  • Southern Broken-Dash 6
  • Sachem 2
  • Common Mellana 2
  • Celia's Roadside-Skipper 3
  • Eufala Skipper 1
  • Ocola Skipper 3
  • Purple-washed Skipper 1
  • Violet-banded Skipper 1