Sighting list for Central Texas - Texas Hill Country

[Robert J. Nuelle, Jr.]

Dear Lepsters:

My wife and I this last weekend got away to the San Antonio ­ Texas Hill
Country [Kerrville/Fredricksburg] sans children, and we not only enjoyed the
magnificent weather, but we squeezed in a few butterfly stops.

* Pipevine Swallowtail (Battus philenor) - quite a few, some mating ­ none
fresh! 
* Orange Sulphur (Colias eurytheme) - at virtually every stop, some fresh ­
some tattered. 
* Southern Dogface (Colias cesonia) I caught 1 very fresh individual near
the Bat Tunnel park.
* Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae) Several of these, fast flying, very net
averse ­ none caught!
* Dainty Sulphur (Nathalis iole) At 1 Picnic area there were hundreds of
these, I caught 10 with one net sweep. All fresh
* Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae): These were attracted to the Red
colored Sumac trees.
* Julia Heliconian (Dryas julia) I saw my first specimen ever of this at St
Mary¹s University [My alma mater]. Missed him/her due to a fence in an area
under construction. I was pretty sure campus police still had my name on
file so I stayed out of the restricted area.
* Variegated Fritillary (Euptoieta claudia) Very common ­ most fresh some
very tattered 
* American Lady (Vanessa virginiensis) Several seen, 1 captured
* Red Admiral (V. atalanta): Saw 1 flying, found one dead [car struck] -
very fresh 
* Common Buckeye (Junonia coenia) I always see these alongside of roads or
on brown patches of dirt
* Monarch (Danaus plexippus) We hit two of these with the car [65 mph] and
they made a mess. We saw 5 or 6 others, 1 pair mating.
*  Fiery Skipper (Hylephila phyleus): A lot of these mixed in with the
Dainty Sulphurs, low. on small yellow flowers in the grass.
* 

It was a great trip, if only I had caught that Julia . . .
-- 
Sincerely,


Robert J. Nuelle, Jr.
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