Date & Time:
August 1, 2016 -
7:00am to 4:00pm
Compiler:
Doug Danforth
Trip Butterfly Reports:
- Pipevine Swallowtail 45
- Black Swallowtail 3
- Two-tailed Swallowtail 9
- Checkered White 46
- Cabbage White 3
- Orange Sulphur 2
- Southern Dogface 2
- Cloudless Sulphur 24
- Large Orange Sulphur 1
- Lyside Sulphur 2
- Mexican Yellow 20
- Tailed Orange 1
- Sleepy Orange 64
- Dainty Sulphur 9
- Gr. Purple Hairstreak 1
- 'Siva' Juniper Hairstreak 1
- Gray Hairstreak 2
- Leda Ministreak 5
- Arizona Hairstreak 2
- Western Pygmy-Blue 30
- Marine Blue 33
- Ceraunus Blue 12
- Reakirt's Blue 4
- Spring Azure 18
- Fatal Metalmark 6
- Zela Metalmark 17
- Ares Metalmark 1
- Palmer's Metalmark 4
- American Snout 2
- Gulf Fritillary 3
- Variegated Fritillary 8
- Bordered Patch 19
- Elada Checkerspot 12
- Painted Crescent 1
- Satyr Comma 1
- Mourning Cloak 2
- American Lady 1
- Painted Lady 4
- Common Buckeye 4
- Red-spotted Purple 2
- Viceroy 1
- California Sister 4
- Tawny Emperor 7
- Canyonland Satyr 1
- Red Satyr 1
- Monarch 2
- Queen 26
- Silver-spotted Skipper 1
- Short-tailed Skipper 1
- Arizona Skipper 1
- Golden Banded-Skipper 29
- N. Cloudywing 8
- Drusius Cloudywing 3
- Acacia Skipper 1
- Gold-costa Skipper 4
- Golden-headed Scallopwing 3
- Juvenal's Duskywing 2
- Pacuvius Duskywing 1
- Funereal Duskywing 1
- Com. Sootywing 3
- Saltbush Sootywing 7
- Four-spotted Skipperling 16
- Many-spotted Skipperling 22
- Edwards' Skipperling 1
- Orange Skipperling 7
- Fiery Skipper 3
- Pahaska Skipper 1
- Taxiles Skipper 7
- Moon-marked Skipper 2
- Cassus Roadside-Skipper 3
- Bronze Roadside-Skipper 3
- Elissa Roadside-Skipper 6
- Texas Roadside-Skipper 1
- Nysa Roadside-Skipper 8
- Orange-edged Roadside-Skipper 12
- Eufala Skipper 1
- Brazilian Skipper 1
- Total 77 species, 627 individuals. Immatures: Black Sw. 18 caterpillars; Bordered Patch 50 caterpillars.
- Field Notes: An overnight downpour preceded our count day. The morning was overcast and cool with the sun peeking in and out all morning. Rain started falling around 1400 in parts of the count circle and high winds prevailed most everywhere owing to downdrafts from the building storms.