The Brief<\/p>\n
Video recorded in Corpus Christi earlier this month showed a swarm of butterflies fluttering around vehicles.<\/p>\n
According to the person who posted the video, the butterflies are of the snout variety.<\/p>\n
American snout butterflies have a long history of swarming in Texas during their irregular migrations.<\/p>\n
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A video shows a swarm of butterflies surrounding vehicles crossing Corpus Christi Bay earlier this month.<\/p>\n
What we know<\/p>\n
The video posted by Nikki Ikonomopoulos on June 17 shows black specks fluttering against the backdrop of a blue sky.<\/p>\n
Ikonomopoulos called the insects “snout-nosed” butterflies, likely referring to the American snout butterfly.<\/p>\n
According to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, these butterflies with black-brown wings with white and orange markings, get their name from their long mouth.<\/p>\n
What they’re saying<\/p>\n
They have a long history of darkening skies in Texas during their irregular migrations, according to Texas Parks & Wildlife.<\/p>\n
“In 1921, an estimated 75 million butterflies per hour passed through South Texas in a particularly large wave that stretched for nearly 250 miles,” Ben Hutchins wrote in an article for the department\u2019s magazine in 2017.<\/p>\n
Dig deeper<\/p>\n
These butterflies dine on hackberry leaves as caterpillars. As adults they enjoy nectar from flowers such aster, dogwood and goldenrod.<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
Information in this story came from Storyful, Facebook, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension and Texas Parks & Wildlife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Video recorded in Corpus Christi earlier this month showed a swarm of butterflies fluttering around vehicles.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,126409,27,22010],"class_list":["post-355284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-nikki-ikonomopoulos","tag-texas","tag-texas-parks-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}