Sighting for October 23, 2017
Edward Perry IV
Tosohatchee WMA
Orange County, FL
- 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
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