Wednesday, March 2, 2016

National Butterfly Center, 3/2/16

After spending the morning birding at Anzalduas, I ran over to the National Butterfly Center to eat my lunch and watch for the Brown Thrasher at the bird feeding station.  But Mike and Ginny were there and in a few minutes I was looking at my first Double-dotted Skippers for Hidalgo County.  And before I went home I had seen 49 species of butterflies.



Two Glazed Pellicias were a surprise for this early in the year.


The first Banded Peacock I've heard of this year.


Two-barred Flashers are still around.


I like this ruby red Southern Broken-dash.


A Common Mellana and a Whirlabout were getting friendly.


 Great Purple Hairstreak must be one of the most photogenic butterflies.


Here's the list.
  • Pipevine Swallowtail 2
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Checkered White 1
  • Southern Dogface 3
  • Large Orange Sulphur 3
  • Lyside Sulphur 1
  • Little Yellow 10
  • Great Purple Hairstreak 2
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 3
  • Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak 2
  • Dusky-blue Groundstreak 10
  • Ceraunus Blue 1
  • Reakirt's Blue 2
  • American Snout 12
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Bordered Patch 4
  • Texan Crescent 2
  • Pale-banded Crescent 1
  • Vesta Crescent 8
  • Phaon Crescent 50
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Banded Peacock 1
  • Common Mestra 1
  • Monarch 20
  • Brown Longtail 3
  • Two-barred Flasher 1
  • Coyote Cloudywing 2
  • Glazed Pellicia 1
  • Mazans Scallopwing 2
  • White-patched Skipper 1
  • Funereal Duskywing 4
  • White Checkered-Skipper 40
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper20
  • Laviana White-Skipper 15
  • Common Sootywing 1
  • Julia's Skipper 2
  • Fawn-spotted Skipper 2
  • Clouded Skipper 5
  • Double-dotted Skipper 3
  • Southern Skipperling 20
  • Fiery Skipper 15
  • Whirlabout 10
  • Southern Broken-Dash 10
  • Sachem 2
  • Common Mellana 10
  • Celia's Roadside-Skipper 2
  • Eufala Skipper 10