Our Rio Brazos Audubon club conducted its annual Butterfly Count this past Saturday. We managed to find 30 species (201 individual butterflies) in the heat. This count begins at Lick Creek Park and includes a 6 mile radius of the park.
Total list of butterfly species seen: Pipevine Swallowtail, Giant Swallowtail, Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, Cloudless Sulphur, Little Yellow, Sleepy Orange, Dainty Sulphur, Gray Hairstreak, Red-banded Hairstreak, Ceraunus Blue, Reakirt's Blue, American Snout, Gulf Fritillary, Silvery Checkerspot, Phaon Crescent, Pearl Crescent, American Lady, Common Buckeye, Hackberry Emperor, Tawny Emperor, Carolina Satyr, Monarch, Queen, Horace's Duskywing, Common Checkered-Skipper, Tropical Checkered-Skipper, Clouded Skipper, Least Skipper, Southern Skipperling, Fiery Skipper
Here are photos of some of the butterflies: (you can click on any photo to see enlarged images)
Carolina Satyr
Clouded Skippers
Pearl Crescent
Common/White Checkered-Skipper
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, dark morph female
Little Yellow
Southern Skipperling
Tropical Checkered-Skipper
Common Buckeye
Hackberry Emperor
Silvery Checkerspot
Sleepy Orange
Least Skipper
Least Skipper taking off
Fiery Skipper
Ceraunus Blue
Little Yellows "puddling" in not much of a puddle
Dainty Sulphur
Queen
Monarch
American Lady
