Date & Time:
July 31, 2016 - 7:30am
Meeting Place:
McDonald's Parking Lot, Green Valley
Compiler:
Mary Klinkle
Trip Butterfly Reports:
- Pipevine Swallowtail 28
- Black Swallowtail 2
- Giant Swallowtail 6
- Two-tailed Swallowtail 19
- Orange Sulphur 1
- *S. Dogface 29
- Cloudless Sulphur 148
- Mexican Yellow 31
- *Sleepy Orange 58
- Dainty Sulphur 8
- +Gr. Purple Hairstreak 1
- Gray Hairstreak 1
- *Leda Ministreak 10
- Arizona Hairstreak 5
- Marine Blue 355
- *Ceraunus Bl. 164
- *Reakirt's Blue 284
- Spring Azure 23
- Acmon Blue 1
- Fatal Metalmark 3
- Arizona Metalmark 1
- *Zela Metalmark 6
- +Ares Metalmark 1
- Mormon Metalmark 1
- Palmer's Metalmark 2
- American Snout 8
- Gulf Fritillary 3
- *Variegated Fritillary 7
- Bordered Patch 63
- Elf 3
- Tiny Checkerspot 14
- Elada Checkerspot 35
- Texan Crescent 6
- Mourning Cloak 1
- Painted Lady 5
- Common Buckeye 1
- *Red-spotted Purple 3
- *California Sister 11
- Hackberry Emperor 1
- Empress Leilia 11
- *Tawny Emperor 6
- Red Satyr 5
- Queen 9
- Dull Firetip 5
- Arizona Skipper 26
- Golden Banded-Skipper 5
- Northern Cloudywing 8
- Acacia Skipper 28
- Golden-headed Scallopwing 14
- Arizona Powdered-Skipper 6,
- Mournful Duskywing 5
- Funereal Duskywing 1
- White Checkered-Skipper 2
- Common Streaky-Skipper 9
- Common Sootywing 3
- Many-spotted Skipperling 17
- Orange Skipperling 22
- Pahaska Skipper 5
- Taxiles Skipper 2
- Large Roadside-Skipper 2
- Cassus Roadside-Skipper 2
- Bronze Roadside-Skipper 6
- Elissa Roadside-Skipper 12
- *Toltec Roadside-Skipper 2
- Slaty Roadside-Skipper 2
- Nysa Roadside-Skipper 18
- Dotted Roadside-Skipper 1
- *Ursine Giant-Skipper 2
Total 68 species, 1585 individuals.
Field Notes: In spite of almost no sun in the morning and some rain, the mostly sunny afternoon helped to bring the species and individual totals up to a strong finish.
*New high count
+New species for count.