Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Common Banner at National Butterfly Center, 11/17/17

With a warn windy day forecast ahead of an approaching cold front, I thought today could best be spent looking for butterflies at the National Butterfly Center.  My target for the day was the Common Banner that had been seen recently.  It took a few hours but it finally showed up.



It also took a while to get this Red Rim.



Here's the list.

Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Giant White 1
  • Southern Dogface 8
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Large Orange Sulphur 10
  • Lyside Sulphur 5
  • Little Yellow 5
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Dainty Sulphur 1
  • Marius Hairstreak 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 6
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 4
  • Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak 1
  • Dusky-blue Groundstreak 1
  • Clytie Ministreak 1
  • Western Pygmy-Blue 1
  • Cassius Blue 8
  • Ceraunus Blue 25
  • Fatal Metalmark 1
  • American Snout 15
  • Gulf Fritillary 5
  • Zebra Heliconian 5
  • Mexican Fritillary 5
  • Bordered Patch 4
  • Crimson Patch 2
  • Elada Crescent 1
  • Texan Crescent 1
  • Phaon Crescent 40
  • Question Mark 2
  • Painted Lady 3
  • Common Buckeye 4
  • Tropical Buckeye 1
  • White Peacock 20
  • Mexican Bluewing 5
  • Common Mestra 3
  • Red Rim 1
  • Tropical Leafwing 6
  • Tawny Emperor 100
  • Empress Leilia 6
  • Carolina Satyr 3
  • Queen 250
  • Soldier 10
  • Brown Longtail 10
  • Glazed Pellicia 2
  • White-patched Skipper 2
  • White Checkered-Skipper 15
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper10
  • Laviana White-Skipper 6
  • Fawn-spotted Skipper 10
  • Clouded Skipper 50
  • Double-dotted Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 25
  • Whirlabout 25
  • Southern Broken-Dash 6
  • Sachem 3
  • Common Mellana 30
  • Eufala Skipper 5
  • Ocola Skipper 1