Recent sightings

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(20-166). Warm and partly sunny. With J & I Gibbons. FL96

1:30 PM. First butterfly for 2022 at this location.

Seven Springs Loop Trail 1145-1530, 4 miles. Finally some sunny weather in California! Temps still in the high 50’s-low 60’s in the afternoon. “Lotus” Bramble Hairstreak was a Lifer for me.

Season is getting a slow start, with all the rain and more on the way. But today was sunny, mid-60s. Western Brown Elfin and Propertius Duskywing, First-of-Season. Also saw a single Variable Checkerspot caterpillar marching across the road.

Sunny, breezy, 68 degrees. Still slow and very little nectar in bloom as yet.

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There’s always surprises out there. Today it was the number of Appalachian Browns and finally seeing an Elfin in Florida.

Cabbage White was in very poor shape must have had a rough winter.

Yard butters.

Friends of Kissimmee Prairie butterfly walks 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. 74°-91°, partly cloudy, winds 9-13 mph. 22 participants. Nectar: thistle, daisy fleabane, spermacoce, Spanish needles.

Nectaring on Shrubby False Buttonweed ((Spermacoce verticillata).

The Frosted Elfins are the subspecies hadros that is found in the Arklatex region.

(27-198) Always worth a visit. FL93

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Cloudless Sulphur on mounding mandevilla

Scouting for upcoming butterfly walks. 10 a.m.-4 pm. 71°-84°, winds 10-14. Area very dry with few wildflowers. Nectar: thistle, fleabane, Spanish needles. ACreager, KNieves, LCooper. Last hour with JBoxall, EPoropat.