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
Common Checkered-Skipper
Gray Hairstreak
Least Skipper
Pearl Crescent
Phaon Crescent
Phaon Crescent
Question Mark
Sleepy Orange
Viceroy
Dainty Sulphur
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.