Sighting for October 13, 2019
Edward Perry IV
Bull Creek WMA
Osceola County, FL
- Zebra Swallowtail 17
- Black Swallowtail 5
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5
- Spicebush Swallowtail 6
- Palamedes Swallowtail 17
- Cloudless Sulphur 18
- Barred Yellow 1
- Little Yellow 19
- Sleepy Orange 1
- Gray Hairstreak 4
- Ceraunus Blue 16
- Little Metalmark 11
- Gulf Fritillary 2
- Common Buckeye 3
- White Peacock 8
- Viceroy 2
- Georgia Satyr 2
- Monarch 2
- Queen 3
- Long-tailed Skipper 2
- Confused Cloudywing 1
- Horace's Duskywing 3
- Zarucco Duskywing 5
- White Checkered-Skipper 2
- Swarthy Skipper 5
- Southern Skipperling 1
- Fiery Skipper 14
- Dotted Skipper 13
- Meske's Skipper 5
- Tawny-edged Skipper 15
- Whirlabout 14
- Southern Broken-Dash 10
- Sachem 1
- Arogos Skipper 13
- Delaware Skipper 7
- Palmetto Skipper 12
- Berry's Skipper 2
- Dusted Skipper 16
- Eufala Skipper 2
- Twin-spot Skipper 6
- Ocola Skipper 9
Arogos Skipper
Dusted Skipper
Palmetto Skipper
Gulf Fritillary
Sachem
Dotted Skipper
Meske's Skipper
Meske's Skipper
Dotted Skipper
Zebra Swallowtail
Berry's Skipper
Surveyed west loop area with liatris/carphehorus/honeycomb-head from 9 am to 2:30p; a cool start to the morning started things off slow. A noticeable decline from last week but still lots of good skippers, and we did get “The Bull Creek Fabulous Five: dotted, Meske’s, Berry’s, dusted, arogos.” Interesting Berry’s today; the strong field mark is the bold white hw veins; one was so fresh the veins hadn’t lost any scales yet, but using other cues like body shape, color, head color, size, fringe color, it comes out Berry’s! We saw two like this. Meske’s are late risers if you’re wanting to see them, stay ‘til afternoon. EPerry & RWarner, a good time was had by all!