Sighting for July 1, 2020
Edward Perry IV
Bull Creek WMA
Osceola County, FL
- Zebra Swallowtail 10
- Black Swallowtail 6
- Giant Swallowtail 1
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
- Spicebush Swallowtail 1
- Palamedes Swallowtail 6
- Great Southern White 1
- Cloudless Sulphur 9
- Barred Yellow 4
- Little Yellow 19
- Dainty Sulphur 3
- Gray Hairstreak 74
- Red-banded Hairstreak 1
- Cassius Blue 3
- Ceraunus Blue 47
- Little Metalmark 5
- Gulf Fritillary 2
- Phaon Crescent 3
- Pearl Crescent 10
- Common Buckeye 25
- White Peacock 4
- Viceroy 6
- Carolina Satyr 3
- Georgia Satyr 7
- Queen 3
- Dorantes Longtail 1
- Northern Cloudywing 5
- Confused Cloudywing 1
- Horace's Duskywing 6
- Zarucco Duskywing 76
- Southern Skipperling 2
- Fiery Skipper 21
- Dotted Skipper 1
- Tawny-edged Skipper 1
- Whirlabout 3
- Southern Broken-Dash 56
- Sachem 1
- Arogos Skipper 34
- Delaware Skipper 1
- Palmetto Skipper 4
Arogos Skipper
Confused Cloudywing
Arogos Skipper
Arogos Skipper
Southern Broken-Dash
Little Metalmark
Arogos Skipper
Gray Hairstreak
Palmetto Skipper
Zarucco Duskywing
Queen
Dainty Sulphur
Southern Skipperling
Fiery Skipper
Arogos Skipper
Arogos Skipper
Southern Broken-Dash
Arogos Skipper
Arogos Skipper
Arogos Skipper
Arogos Skipper
Arogos Skipper
9 am to 4:15 pm. Hot and humid sunny morning followed by partly cloudy skies through an equally hot afternoon. Met by heavy thunderstorms as leaving the park. Regenerating areas that burned in the last year are holding the rare skippers. Many nectar sources: Pickerelweed, Barbara’s buttons, Florida False Sunflower, Carphephorus sp., Redroot, Blue Mistflower, Bidens alba, Pulchea spp., Milkwort, Spermacoce, Goldenrod, and Turkey Tangle. It’s looking to be a fantastic showing of Arogos Skipper again this season. EPerry & RWarner