Sighting for June 2, 2019
Linda Cooper
Avon Park Air Force Range
Polk County, FL
- Zebra Swallowtail 28
- Black Swallowtail 22
- Giant Swallowtail 1
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 14
- Spicebush Swallowtail 21
- Palamedes Swallowtail 55
- Great Southern White 17
- Cloudless Sulphur 3
- Barred Yellow 2
- Little Yellow 22
- Sleepy Orange 2
- Dainty Sulphur 19
- Gray Hairstreak 215
- Red-banded Hairstreak 4
- Ceraunus Blue 52
- Little Metalmark 40
- Gulf Fritillary 2
- Variegated Fritillary 3
- Phaon Crescent 33
- Pearl Crescent 17
- American Lady 1
- Common Buckeye 56
- White Peacock 50
- Viceroy 3
- Carolina Satyr 6
- Georgia Satyr 12
- Queen 53
- Long-tailed Skipper 2
- Dorantes Longtail 1
- Northern Cloudywing 6
- Horace's Duskywing 6
- Zarucco Duskywing 4
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper 6
- Swarthy Skipper 1
- Least Skipper 2
- Fiery Skipper 30
- Meske's Skipper 3
- Tawny-edged Skipper 7
- Whirlabout 68
- Sachem 7
- Delaware Skipper 9
- Dun Skipper 1
- Monk Skipper 1
- Eufala Skipper 7
- Twin-spot Skipper 1
- Brazilian Skipper 3
Zebra Swallowtail
Phaon Crescent
Gray Hairstreak
Gray Hairstreak
Meske's Skipper
Monk Skipper
Tawny-edged Skipper
Gray Hairstreak
Little Metalmark
Georgia Satyr
Meske's Skipper
Meske's Skipper
11th annual NABA Butterfly Count. This property is in both Polk and Highlands Counties. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Weather: 82°-90°, winds light, sun a.m.-100%, p.m.-50%, brief showers. LCooper, DCutler, MCutler, SFarnsworth, JLampkin, TPalmer. Nectar: gopher apple, frogfruit, pickerelweed, spermacoce, Nuttall’s thistle blackroot, redroot, tarflower, pluchea, coreopsis, mistflower, rudbeckia, Polygala rugelii. Area very dry and most roadsides mowed. Unidentified - 1 swallowtail, 1 cloudywing, 1 grass skipper.