2016 Santa Rita Mountains Summer

Date & Time: 
July 31, 2016 - 7:30am
Meeting Place: 
McDonald's Parking Lot, Green Valley
Compiler: 
Mary Klinkle
Trip Butterfly Reports: 
  1. Pipevine Swallowtail 28
  2. Black Swallowtail 2
  3. Giant Swallowtail 6
  4. Two-tailed Swallowtail 19
  5. Orange Sulphur 1
  6. *S. Dogface 29
  7. Cloudless Sulphur 148
  8. Mexican Yellow 31
  9. *Sleepy Orange 58
  10. Dainty Sulphur 8
  11. +Gr. Purple Hairstreak 1
  12. Gray Hairstreak 1
  13. *Leda Ministreak 10
  14. Arizona Hairstreak 5
  15. Marine Blue 355
  16. *Ceraunus Bl. 164
  17. *Reakirt's Blue 284
  18. Spring Azure 23
  19. Acmon Blue 1
  20. Fatal Metalmark 3
  21. Arizona Metalmark 1
  22. *Zela Metalmark 6
  23. +Ares Metalmark 1
  24. Mormon Metalmark 1
  25. Palmer's Metalmark 2
  26. American Snout 8
  27. Gulf Fritillary 3
  28. *Variegated Fritillary 7
  29. Bordered Patch 63
  30. Elf 3
  31. Tiny Checkerspot 14
  32. Elada Checkerspot 35
  33. Texan Crescent 6
  34. Mourning Cloak 1
  35. Painted Lady 5
  36. Common Buckeye 1
  37. *Red-spotted Purple 3
  38. *California Sister 11
  39. Hackberry Emperor 1
  40. Empress Leilia 11
  41. *Tawny Emperor 6
  42. Red Satyr 5
  43. Queen 9
  44. Dull Firetip 5
  45. Arizona Skipper 26
  46. Golden Banded-Skipper 5
  47. Northern Cloudywing 8
  48. Acacia Skipper 28
  49. Golden-headed Scallopwing 14
  50. Arizona Powdered-Skipper 6,
  51. Mournful Duskywing 5
  52. Funereal Duskywing 1
  53. White Checkered-Skipper 2
  54. Common Streaky-Skipper 9
  55. Common Sootywing 3
  56. Many-spotted Skipperling 17
  57. Orange Skipperling 22
  58. Pahaska Skipper 5
  59. Taxiles Skipper 2
  60. Large Roadside-Skipper 2
  61. Cassus Roadside-Skipper 2
  62. Bronze Roadside-Skipper 6
  63. Elissa Roadside-Skipper 12
  64. *Toltec Roadside-Skipper 2
  65. Slaty Roadside-Skipper 2
  66. Nysa Roadside-Skipper 18
  67. Dotted Roadside-Skipper 1
  68. *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.