Sighting for May 4, 2019
Edward Perry IV
Bull Creek WMA
Osceola County, FL
- Zebra Swallowtail 17
- Black Swallowtail 16
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
- Palamedes Swallowtail 3
- Great Southern White 14
- Barred Yellow 1
- Little Yellow 42
- Dainty Sulphur 9
- Oak Hairstreak 1
- Gray Hairstreak 6
- Red-banded Hairstreak 40
- Cassius Blue 2
- Ceraunus Blue 37
- Little Metalmark 7
- Gulf Fritillary 3
- Phaon Crescent 10
- Pearl Crescent 17
- Red Admiral 2
- Common Buckeye 10
- White Peacock 2
- Viceroy 5
- Carolina Satyr 13
- Georgia Satyr 6
- Monarch 4
- Queen 4
- Northern Cloudywing 3
- Horace's Duskywing 9
- Zarucco Duskywing 34
- White Checkered-Skipper 1
- Swarthy Skipper 1
- Southern Skipperling 1
- Fiery Skipper 3
- Dotted Skipper 4
- Tawny-edged Skipper 3
- Whirlabout 6
- Southern Broken-Dash 5
- Arogos Skipper 9
- Delaware Skipper 21
- Aaron's Skipper 1
- Palmetto Skipper 5
- Monk Skipper 6
- Dusted Skipper 285
- Eufala Skipper 1
- Twin-spot Skipper 23
Little Yellow
Oak Hairstreak
Georgia Satyr
Monk Skipper
Aaron's Skipper
Red-banded Hairstreak
Red Admiral
Twin-spot Skipper
Northern Cloudywing
Dusted Skipper
Delaware Skipper
Arogos Skipper
Dotted Skipper
Palmetto Skipper
Horace's Duskywing
Dusted Skipper
Dotted Skipper
Dusted Skipper
Arogos Skipper
Fiery Skipper
Arogos Skipper
Dusted Skipper
Dusted Skipper
Dainty Sulphur
Pearl Crescent
Queen
An amazing day/survey spent with friends that also love butterflies. WWallenstein, SKelly, MHeinemann, RWarner, and TPalmer joined up to travel East Loop, to Crossroad, then West Loop, and finishing up on Cemetery Road. Survey time was from 8am to 3:20pm. An amazing quantity of Florida Dusted Skippers were counted, with one Nuttall’s Thistle plant holding eleven dusted skippers on it alone! Eighty percent sun, hot, humid. Major nectar was Daisy Fleabane, Pickereleweed, Lizard’s Tail, Nuttall’s and Bull Thistle, Gallberry, Coreopsis spp., Buttonbush, Gopher Apple, and Pulchea odorata. A good time was had by all!