Sighting for June 15, 2019
Linda Cooper
Disney Wilderness Preserve
Polk County, FL
- Polydamas Swallowtail 1
- Zebra Swallowtail 32
- Black Swallowtail 17
- Giant Swallowtail 3
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 10
- Spicebush Swallowtail 11
- Palamedes Swallowtail 15
- Great Southern White 1
- Cloudless Sulphur 32
- Orange-barred Sulphur 5
- Barred Yellow 17
- Little Yellow 103
- Sleepy Orange 3
- Dainty Sulphur 17
- Great Purple Hairstreak 2
- White M Hairstreak 1
- Gray Hairstreak 168
- Red-banded Hairstreak 2
- Ceraunus Blue 118
- Little Metalmark 5
- Gulf Fritillary 1
- Zebra Heliconian 3
- Variegated Fritillary 2
- Phaon Crescent 2
- Pearl Crescent 8
- Painted Lady 2
- Red Admiral 1
- Common Buckeye 23
- White Peacock 51
- Viceroy 1
- Hackberry Emperor 1
- Tawny Emperor 2
- Carolina Satyr 11
- Monarch 1
- Queen 23
- Silver-spotted Skipper 3
- Long-tailed Skipper 1
- Dorantes Longtail 10
- Northern Cloudywing 9
- Horace's Duskywing 46
- Zarucco Duskywing 21
- White Checkered-Skipper 1
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper 8
- Swarthy Skipper 1
- Three-spotted Skipper 1
- Clouded Skipper 8
- Southern Skipperling 2
- Fiery Skipper 50
- Tawny-edged Skipper 9
- Whirlabout 61
- Southern Broken-Dash 3
- Sachem 4
- Delaware Skipper 206
- Palmetto Skipper 2
- Eufala Skipper 4
- Brazilian Skipper 0
- Ocola Skipper 11
24th annual NABA Butterfly Count. 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. two teams inside the Preserve, 1 team outside. 79°-86°; sun a.m.-70%, p.m.-20%, winds 3-6 mph. Nectar: pickerelweed, thistle, fireweed, milkpea, wood germander Spanish needles, redroot, frogfruit, verbena, eryngium, polygala, loosestrife. LCooper, SFarnsworth, KKane, DMiller, TPalmer, NPrine, PRoyston. Total party hours: 21.5, total party miles on foot: 7. Brazilian Skipper was caterpillar only. 40 species inside Preserve, total species for Count was 56.