Sighting for September 24, 2019
Linda Cooper
Bull Creek WMA
Osceola County, FL
- Zebra Swallowtail 29
- Black Swallowtail 15
- Giant Swallowtail 2
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5
- Spicebush Swallowtail 8
- Palamedes Swallowtail 20
- Cloudless Sulphur 50
- Barred Yellow 1
- Little Yellow 42
- Sleepy Orange 3
- Dainty Sulphur 1
- Gray Hairstreak 2
- Red-banded Hairstreak 2
- Ceraunus Blue 16
- Gulf Fritillary 1
- Phaon Crescent 5
- Pearl Crescent 2
- Common Buckeye 24
- White Peacock 10
- Viceroy 5
- Carolina Satyr 13
- Silver-spotted Skipper 1
- Long-tailed Skipper 4
- Dorantes Longtail 1
- Northern Cloudywing 2
- Confused Cloudywing 9
- Horace's Duskywing 9
- Zarucco Duskywing 15
- Swarthy Skipper 3
- Least Skipper 1
- Southern Skipperling 1
- Fiery Skipper 10
- Dotted Skipper 3
- Tawny-edged Skipper 8
- Whirlabout 13
- Southern Broken-Dash 17
- Northern Broken-Dash 1
- Sachem 5
- Arogos Skipper 32
- Delaware Skipper 4
- Palmetto Skipper 3
- Dusted Skipper 3
- Eufala Skipper 4
- Twin-spot Skipper 10
- Ocola Skipper 6
Scouting for upcoming field trip. Although there is no liatris in bloom there are enough wildflowers to keep a group interested. 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m.. Weather: 79°-91°, winds-7-10 mph, sun all day. Area very dry. Nectar: Rayless Sunflower, carphephorus, Florida Elephant’s Foot, Spanish needles, Frog Fruit, pickerelweed, mistflower, spermacoce. LCooper, EPerry, RWarner.