2016 Portal

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: 
  1. Pipevine Swallowtail 5
  2. Giant Swallowtail 1
  3. Two-tailed Swallowtail 25
  4. Checkered White 1
  5. Orange Sulphur 76
  6. Cloudless Sulphur 7
  7. Sleepy Orange 3
  8. Dainty Sulphur 5
  9. 'Siva' Juniper Hairstreak 3
  10. Gray Hairstreak 1
  11. Marine Blue 19
  12. Ceraunus Blue 3
  13. Reakirt's Blue 25
  14. Spring Azure 7
  15. Acmon Blue 1
  16. Arizona Metalmark 1
  17. Bordered Patch 125
  18. Elada Checkerspot 3
  19. Mylitta Crescent 4
  20. Satyr Comma 1
  21. Painted Lady 6
  22. Red Admiral 1
  23. Common Buckeye 3
  24. Red-spotted Purple 3
  25. *California Sister 7
  26. Red Satyr 4
  27. Pine Satyr 2
  28. Monarch 1
  29. Queen 10
  30. Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  31. Golden Banded-Skipper 72
  32. Desert Cloudywing 1
  33. Northern Cloudywing 86
  34. Drusius Cloudywing 10
  35. Acacia Skipper 5
  36. Golden-headed Scallopwing 2
  37. Arizona Powdered-Skipper 1
  38. Juvenal's Duskywing 1
  39. Mournful Duskywing 3
  40. Pacuvius Duskywing 17
  41. Funereal Duskywing 1
  42. Com. Checkered-Skipper 1
  43. White Checkered-Skipper. 3
  44. Common Sootywing 1
  45. Four-spotted Skipperling 19
  46. Orange Skippeling. 8
  47. Pahaska Skipper 2
  48. Snow's Skipper 1
  49. Taxiles Skipper 37
  50. Sheep Skipper 1
  51. Large Roadside-Skipper 6
  52. Cassus Roadside-Skipper 2
  53. Bronze Roadside-Skipper 9
  54. Slaty Roadside-Skipper 6
  55. Dotted Roadside-Skipper 3
  56. 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).