Tuesday, October 25, 2016

National Butterfly Center, 10/25/16

Spent a warm afternoon at the National Butterfly Center sorting through the hordes of butterflies.  This sharp Gold-spotted Aguna was the prize of the day.



Marius Hairstreak is always a treat.  They've had a few in the area lately.


Glazed Pellicias are around in good numbers just like last fall.


Saw three Tropical Buckeyes today.



And lots of regular Common Buckeyes.


Here are some tailed skippers.  White-striped, Dorantes and Long-tailed.




I liked this well marked Soldier.


Wish this spider would pick on the snouts instead of the Gulf Fritillaries.



So a pretty good day with 56 species.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 10
  • Giant Swallowtail 6
  • Southern Dogface 12
  • Cloudless Sulphur 6
  • Large Orange Sulphur 10
  • Lyside Sulphur lots
  • Tailed Orange 2
  • Little Yellow 8
  • Marius Hairstreak 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 12
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 5
  • Cassius Blue 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 10
  • American Snout lots
  • Gulf Fritillary 10
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Mexican Fritillary 1
  • Theona Checkerspot 1
  • Bordered Patch 5
  • Crimson Patch 8
  • Pale-banded Crescent 1
  • Vesta Crescent 1
  • Phaon Crescent 4
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 12
  • Tropical Buckeye 3
  • White Peacock 12
  • Mexican Bluewing 4
  • Common Mestra 5
  • Tawny Emperor lots
  • Monarch 1
  • Queen lots
  • Soldier 12
  • White-striped Longtail 1
  • Gold-spotted Aguna 1
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • Dorantes Longtail 2
  • Brown Longtail 8
  • Glazed Pellicia 3
  • White-patched Skipper 1
  • White Checkered-Skipper 8
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 2
  • Laviana White-Skipper lots
  • Julia's Skipper 1
  • Fawn-spotted Skipper 1
  • Clouded Skipper 10
  • Southern Skipperling 2
  • Fiery Skipper lots
  • Whirlabout 12
  • Southern Broken-Dash 6
  • Sachem lots
  • Common Mellana 5
  • Celia's Roadside-Skipper 2
  • Eufala Skipper 10
  • Ocola Skipper lots
  • Purple-washed Skipper 1