Sighting for June 17, 2017
Linda Cooper
Tosohatchee WMA
Orange County, FL
- Zebra Swallowtail 1
- Black Swallowtail 45
- Giant Swallowtail 1
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 16
- Spicebush Swallowtail 10
- Palamedes Swallowtail 46
- Checkered White 10
- Great Southern White 2
- Cloudless Sulphur 13
- Barred Yellow 5
- Little Yellow 17
- Sleepy Orange 15
- Dainty Sulphur 15
- Great Purple Hairstreak 1
- White M Hairstreak 1
- Gray Hairstreak 33
- Red-banded Hairstreak 35
- Cassius Blue 4
- Ceraunus Blue 28
- Little Metalmark 3
- Gulf Fritillary 16
- Variegated Fritillary 2
- Phaon Crescent 54
- Pearl Crescent 54
- Common Buckeye 8
- White Peacock 69
- Viceroy 13
- Carolina Satyr 9
- Georgia Satyr 2
- Common Wood-Nymph 17
- Monarch 8
- Queen 22
- Silver-spotted Skipper 1
- Dorantes Longtail 2
- Northern Cloudywing 3
- Horace's Duskywing 24
- Zarucco Duskywing 3
- White Checkered-Skipper 4
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper 9
- Least Skipper 2
- Southern Skipperling 14
- Fiery Skipper 25
- Tawny-edged Skipper 2
- Whirlabout 7
- Southern Broken-Dash 2
- Northern Broken-Dash 37
- Sachem 2
- Delaware Skipper 3
- Monk Skipper 1
- Twin-spot Skipper 3
- Ocola Skipper 2
This area has gone from drought to flood in 2-3 weeks. This is part of a NABA butterfly count. Sunny most of the day with temps from 76-89 degrees. DCutler, MCutler, TPalmer, BSmith, EPerry, RWarner, LCooper. Northern Broken-dash averages less than 5 seen any given year during the past 23 years of count and many years we see none. We were astonished to find 37!