Sighting for July 3, 2020
Scott Anderson
Deer Prairie Preserve
Sarasota County, FL
- Great Southern White 1
- Cloudless Sulphur 1
- Orange-barred Sulphur 5
- Barred Yellow 1
- Sleepy Orange 2
- Gray Hairstreak 6
- Red-banded Hairstreak 2
- Common Buckeye 1
- Viceroy 2
- Carolina Satyr 7
- Queen 3
- Horace's Duskywing 4
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper 2
- Fiery Skipper 5
Queen
Gray Hairstreak
Zebra Swallowtail
Carolina Satyr
Horace's Duskywing
Queen
Sleepy Orange
1110am-145pm, 89-91 degrees, sunny, calm. After more than 50 field trips this year in Sarasota County, this was the first sighting of the Carolina Satyr and another butterfly found on the Most Wanted Butterfly List for Sarasota County.