Date & Time:
July 23, 2016 - 8:00am
Meeting Place:
Forest Service Visitor Center near Portal
Compiler:
Fred Heath
Compiler Email:
fred.heath43@gmail.com
Trip Butterfly Reports:
- Pipevine Swallowtail 5
- Giant Swallowtail 1
- Two-tailed Swallowtail 25
- Checkered White 1
- Orange Sulphur 76
- Cloudless Sulphur 7
- Sleepy Orange 3
- Dainty Sulphur 5
- 'Siva' Juniper Hairstreak 3
- Gray Hairstreak 1
- Marine Blue 19
- Ceraunus Blue 3
- Reakirt's Blue 25
- Spring Azure 7
- Acmon Blue 1
- Arizona Metalmark 1
- Bordered Patch 125
- Elada Checkerspot 3
- Mylitta Crescent 4
- Satyr Comma 1
- Painted Lady 6
- Red Admiral 1
- Common Buckeye 3
- Red-spotted Purple 3
- *California Sister 7
- Red Satyr 4
- Pine Satyr 2
- Monarch 1
- Queen 10
- Silver-spotted Skipper 2
- Golden Banded-Skipper 72
- Desert Cloudywing 1
- Northern Cloudywing 86
- Drusius Cloudywing 10
- Acacia Skipper 5
- Golden-headed Scallopwing 2
- Arizona Powdered-Skipper 1
- Juvenal's Duskywing 1
- Mournful Duskywing 3
- Pacuvius Duskywing 17
- Funereal Duskywing 1
- Com. Checkered-Skipper 1
- White Checkered-Skipper. 3
- Common Sootywing 1
- Four-spotted Skipperling 19
- Orange Skippeling. 8
- Pahaska Skipper 2
- Snow's Skipper 1
- Taxiles Skipper 37
- Sheep Skipper 1
- Large Roadside-Skipper 6
- Cassus Roadside-Skipper 2
- Bronze Roadside-Skipper 9
- Slaty Roadside-Skipper 6
- Dotted Roadside-Skipper 3
- Orange-edged Roadside-Skipper 32
Total: 56 species, 685 individuals. Immatures: Monarch 4 caterpillars on Asclepias angustifolia. Field
Notes: Somewhat dry conditions, but mostly warm, sunny day with no rain made for a good count. *Arizona Sister (A. eulalia).