Sighting for August 10, 2020
Tom Palmer
Lake Walkinwater area
Polk County, FL
- Pipevine Swallowtail 2
- Zebra Swallowtail 3
- Giant Swallowtail 3
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
- Spicebush Swallowtail 1
- Palamedes Swallowtail 3
- Cloudless Sulphur 11
- Barred Yellow 16
- Little Yellow 1
- Dainty Sulphur 3
- Gray Hairstreak 2
- Ceraunus Blue 3
- Gulf Fritillary 1
- Zebra Heliconian 7
- Phaon Crescent 3
- Common Buckeye 1
- White Peacock 16
- Viceroy 6
- Monarch 1
- Queen 2
- Dorantes Longtail 1
- Northern Cloudywing 1
- Horace's Duskywing 6
- Zarucco Duskywing 6
- White Checkered-Skipper 4
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper 2
- Three-spotted Skipper 7
- Least Skipper 1
- Southern Skipperling 4
- Fiery Skipper 6
- Whirlabout 4
- Southern Broken-Dash 1
- Dun Skipper 1
- Monk Skipper 1
- Brazilian Skipper 12
- Ocola Skipper 7
Recent roadside mowing reduced nectar sources. Large stands of Thalia were productive for Brazilians and ruderal area on county park land yielded good numbers of Three-spotted.