Sighting for July 18, 2020
Linda Cooper
Roadsides in Highlands and Hardee Counties
Highlands County, FL
- Pipevine Swallowtail 1
- Zebra Swallowtail 9
- Black Swallowtail 2
- Giant Swallowtail 3
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
- Spicebush Swallowtail 2
- Palamedes Swallowtail 4
- Great Southern White 28
- Cloudless Sulphur 44
- Barred Yellow 25
- Little Yellow 3
- Sleepy Orange 23
- Dainty Sulphur 22
- Gray Hairstreak 3
- Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 3
- Red-banded Hairstreak 1
- Cassius Blue 4
- Ceraunus Blue 47
- Common Buckeye 6
- White Peacock 45
- Viceroy 7
- Carolina Satyr 2
- Georgia Satyr 1
- Queen 4
- Long-tailed Skipper 2
- Dorantes Longtail 3
- Horace's Duskywing 2
- White Checkered-Skipper 15
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper 7
- Three-spotted Skipper 6
- Southern Skipperling 13
- Fiery Skipper 39
- Whirlabout 9
- Sachem 24
- Eufala Skipper 2
- Ocola Skipper 3
Three-spotted Skipper
Ceraunus Blue
Barred Yellow
Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak
White Peacock
Great Southern White
Three-spotted Skipper
Dainty Sulphur
Three-spotted Skipper
Outside team for Highland Hammock State Park NABA butterfly count covers roadsides in both Highlands and Hardee Cos. 9 am-4:30 pm; 79°-92°; winds 7-13 mph. Unexpected were the numbers of Mallow Scrub Hr & 3-Spotted Skippers. Nectar: Bidens alba, Spermacoce verticillata, Phyla nodiflora, Hyptis alata, Cirsium nuttallii, Latex Vine/Plant, Phasey Pea, Blue Porterweed, Plumbago auriculata. LCooper, SFarnsworth, NPrine.