Sighting for April 29, 2018

Linda Cooper

Bull Creek WMA
Osceola County, FL

10:30a.m.-4p.m. 75-86 degrees, 100% sun all day, light winds. Area continues very dry. Some recent burns should have good fall wildflowers. Nectar: Nuttall’s & Yellow/Purple Thistles, Daisy Fleabane, Yellow Colic Root. Amazing # of Monk Skippers! Sue Farnsworth, Linda Cooper

  • Zebra Swallowtail 12
  • Black Swallowtail 5
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 7
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 26
  • Great Southern White 20
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Barred Yellow 1
  • Little Yellow 13
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 2
  • Cassius Blue 1
  • Little Metalmark 4
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Phaon Crescent 5
  • Pearl Crescent 12
  • Common Buckeye 6
  • Viceroy 2
  • Queen 4
  • Northern Cloudywing 4
  • Horace's Duskywing 7
  • Zarucco Duskywing 2
  • Swarthy Skipper 2
  • Southern Skipperling 1
  • Fiery Skipper 3
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 5
  • Whirlabout 75
  • Southern Broken-Dash 3
  • Sachem 2
  • Arogos Skipper 3
  • Delaware Skipper 26
  • Palmetto Skipper 40
  • Palatka Skipper 1
  • Monk Skipper 66
  • Dusted Skipper 20
  • Eufala Skipper 1
  • Twin-spot Skipper 50

Monk Skipper

Dusted Skipper

Palmetto Skipper

Arogos Skipper

Monk Skipper

Dusted Skipper

Dusted Skipper

Monk Skipper