Sighting for September 28, 2019
Bart Jones
Eagle Lake WMA
Shelby County, TN
- Pipevine Swallowtail 2
- Checkered White 1
- Orange Sulphur 5
- Cloudless Sulphur common
- Little Yellow common
- Sleepy Orange common
- Dainty Sulphur abundant
- Gray Hairstreak 4
- Red-banded Hairstreak 1
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 10
- American Snout 20
- Gulf Fritillary 7
- Variegated Fritillary 5
- Phaon Crescent common
- Pearl Crescent abundant
- Question Mark 3
- Painted Lady 1
- Common Buckeye 5
- Red-spotted Purple 4
- Viceroy 8
- Hackberry Emperor 2
- Carolina Satyr 3
- Monarch 3
- Common Checkered-Skipper abundant
- Common Sootywing 1
- Least Skipper common
- Fiery Skipper abundant
- Dun Skipper 2
Lots of butterflies, but species diversity is beginning to wind down. It has been very hot and dry the entire month of September. Swallowtails and Silver-spotted Skippers are way down.