Sighting for September 4, 2017
Bart Jones
Sunk Lake SNA and Lower Hatchie NWR
Lauderdale County, TN
- Pipevine Swallowtail
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
- Spicebush Swallowtail
- Checkered White
- Cabbage White
- Orange Sulphur
- Southern Dogface
- Cloudless Sulphur
- Little Yellow
- Sleepy Orange
- Dainty Sulphur 6
- Gray Hairstreak
- Eastern Tailed-Blue
- 'Summer' Spring Azure
- American Snout
- Gulf Fritillary
- Variegated Fritillary
- Pearl Crescent
- Question Mark
- Painted Lady abundant
- Common Buckeye
- Red-spotted Purple
- Viceroy
- Hackberry Emperor
- Tawny Emperor
- Monarch
- Silver-spotted Skipper abundant
- Horace's Duskywing
- Common Checkered-Skipper
- Clouded Skipper
- Least Skipper
- Fiery Skipper
- Sachem
- Yehl Skipper 1
- Dun Skipper
- Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper 4
- Ocola Skipper 3
Dainty Sulphur
Painted Lady
Southern Dogface
Southern Dogface
Southern Dogface
Yehl Skipper
Yehl Skipper
Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper
Painted Ladies have moved en masse into the area in the past week. Hundreds of them are about in any location you look. Silver-spotted Skippers aren’t too far behind them. Sunk Lake is one of the most reliable areas in the state to see Southern Dogfaces and there were dozens flying. A couple were the autumn form with the pink suffusion on the underside. Yehl Skipper is uncommon in the area and the Dainty Sulphurs were FOY.