Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Daily Butterfly Pictures Page 83, 1 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
Roly - sorry for not getting back to you but yes, the 9th NABA Bi-ennial meeting was Thursday with butterfly trips Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

There was no 'butterfly festival' - the Chamber of Commerce of Mission turned over the trips to NABA. The city had a family day at the state park about a mile down the road from NABA/NBC.

Our meeting place was at the Cimarron Club - we had vendors, the seminars, guest speakers and our social hour and dinners held there.

The meeting was on Thursday and the seminars/trips were held Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I think the final total of butterflies sighted throughout the three days was 131 species. Best bugs were: Aquamarine Hairstreak, Band-Celled Sister, Banded Peacock, Blomfild's Beauty, Blue Metalmark, Boisduval's Yellow, Curve-Winged Metalmark, Erichson's White Skipper, Evan's Skipper, Four-spotted Sailor, Glazed Pellicia, Green-backed Ruby-eyed Skipper, Guava Skipper, Obscure Skipper, Red Rim, Red-Bordered Pixie, Spot-Celled Sister, Violet-Banded Skipper, Xami Hairstreak and I'm sure I missed a few others...but it's hard to pick which are the specialties when life lists ranged from 3 to 85 new butterflies for some folks :o)

Anyone interested in what these uncommon and rare butterflies look like can browse through our NABA South Texas Chapter Website photo gallery. http://www.naba.org/chapters/nabast/photoschecklist.html

The party's over now but there is another after meeting trip scheduled tomorrow to Port Aransas.

~ Cat

Here's a photo of about 90 of the folks that showed up. It was a bit like herding cats - others had already taken off before we could get the photo :o)



This message was edited Oct 31, 2010 7:39 PM