Sighting for October 23, 2017

Edward Perry IV

Tosohatchee WMA
Orange County, FL

Partly Sunny and turning cloudy due to a passing cold front. Temps stayed warm however. It was “day of the Hairstreaks!” And especially White M Hairstreak! I have never seen so many of this usually uncommon butterfly. Major nectar sources on Powerline Road alone (we never got anywhere else) were Frostweed, Pickerel Weed, Swamp Sunflower, Bidens alba, and Liatris. We found the liatris late in the day and added many skippers to the list. Most of the hairstreak activity was on the Frostweed. RWarner & EPerry

  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 16
  • Cloudless Sulphur 15
  • Barred Yellow 3
  • Little Yellow 6
  • Great Purple Hairstreak 9
  • White M Hairstreak 35
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 8
  • Ceraunus Blue 2
  • Little Metalmark 3
  • Gulf Fritillary 7
  • Phaon Crescent 12
  • Pearl Crescent 15
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • White Peacock 19
  • Carolina Satyr 1
  • Georgia Satyr 2
  • Monarch 5
  • Queen 6
  • Long-tailed Skipper 18
  • Dorantes Longtail 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 4
  • Swarthy Skipper 2
  • Least Skipper 5
  • Southern Skipperling 1
  • Fiery Skipper 18
  • Meske's Skipper 1
  • Whirlabout 23
  • Southern Broken-Dash 8
  • Sachem 2
  • Palmetto Skipper 7
  • Monk Skipper common
  • Twin-spot Skipper 2
  • Ocola Skipper superabundant

Little Metalmark

Ocola Skipper

Little Yellow

Sachem

Gray Hairstreak

Great Purple Hairstreak

Great Purple Hairstreak

Red-banded Hairstreak

Ocola Skipper

White Peacock

White M Hairstreak

White M Hairstreak

Monk Skipper

White M Hairstreak

Palmetto Skipper

Ocola Skipper

Palmetto Skipper

Meske's Skipper

Palmetto Skipper

Palmetto Skipper

Palmetto Skipper