Things at the National Butterfly Center are trying to recover form the hard freeze this winter. Some good rain last week and warm temperatures have got trees leafing out and flowers blooming. 39 species for the day is a pretty good February total. The Mexican Bluewings were putting on a show,
My first Texas Powdered-Skippers for the year. They like to hang out int he ditch.
Three Turk's-Cap White-Skippers were on the big Azureum patch by the trail that crosses the ditch. Probably over half my day's butterflies were from that patch.
I think it's been a few years since my last Nysa Roadside-Skipper.
One Celia Roadside-Skipper looked kind of normal and the other was pretty freaky.
First Sachem of the year.
What a fantastic Southern Broken-Dash!
Five of the butterflies I saw today were new for the month at the National Butterfly Center bringing the February total to 70.
- Pipevine Swallowtail 1
- Black Swallowtail 1
- Checkered White 5
- Orange Sulphur 3
- Southern Dogface 1
- Cloudless Sulphur 1
- Lyside Sulphur 5
- Little Yellow 6
- Gray Hairstreak 3
- Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 2
- Fatal Metalmark 2
- American Snout 8
- Gulf Fritillary 5
- Bordered Patch 2
- Phaon Crescent 30
- Pearl Crescent 1
- American Lady 3
- Red Admiral 25
- Mexican Bluewing 8
- Empress Leilia 2
- Queen 10
- Texas Powdered-Skipper 2
- Funereal Duskywing 2
- White Checkered-Skipper 10
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper 30
- Laviana White-Skipper 15
- Turk's-cap White-Skipper 3
- Common Sootywing 1
- Clouded Skipper 20
- Double-dotted Skipper 1
- Southern Skipperling 3
- Fiery Skipper 15
- Whirlabout 25
- Southern Broken-Dash 1
- Sachem 2
- Common Mellana 3
- Nysa Roadside-Skipper 1
- Celia's Roadside-Skipper 2
- Eufala Skipper 20
