Sighting for June 5, 2021
Linda Cooper
Colt Creek State Park
Polk County, FL
- Zebra Swallowtail 7
- Black Swallowtail 43
- Giant Swallowtail 6
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 39
- Spicebush Swallowtail 3
- Palamedes Swallowtail 37
- Checkered White 8
- Great Southern White 11
- Southern Dogface 6
- Cloudless Sulphur 34
- Little Yellow 17
- Sleepy Orange 45
- Dainty Sulphur 10
- White M Hairstreak 3
- Gray Hairstreak 44
- Red-banded Hairstreak 9
- Cassius Blue 6
- Ceraunus Blue 15
- Little Metalmark 3
- Gulf Fritillary 274
- Zebra Heliconian 17
- Variegated Fritillary 159
- Phaon Crescent 34
- Pearl Crescent 25
- American Lady 1
- Common Buckeye 43
- White Peacock 26
- Viceroy 21
- Appalachian Brown 4
- Gemmed Satyr 1
- Carolina Satyr 38
- Monarch 6
- Queen 20
- Dorantes Longtail 17
- Confused Cloudywing 1
- Horace's Duskywing 22
- Zarucco Duskywing 3
- White Checkered-Skipper 3
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper 8
- Swarthy Skipper 2
- Least Skipper 4
- Southern Skipperling 3
- Fiery Skipper 56
- Tawny-edged Skipper 1
- Whirlabout 15
- Southern Broken-Dash 3
- Northern Broken-Dash 3
- Sachem 1
- Monk Skipper 1
- Twin-spot Skipper 6
- Brazilian Skipper 3
- Ocola Skipper 2
Zarucco Duskywing
Variegated Fritillary
Little Metalmark
White M Hairstreak
Appalachian Brown
Confused Cloudywing
Viceroy
Northern Broken-Dash
Checkered White
Southern Broken-Dash
Queen
Brazilian Skipper
Sachem
Queen
Southern Dogface
15th Annual NABA BUTTERFLY COUNT. 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. 78°-91°, sun a.m.-20%; p.m.-95%, light winds. Three teams inside, one team outside park. Nectar: mostly thistle but also loosestrife, pluchea, pickerelweed, Blackroot, Spermacoce. LCooper, SFarnsworth, DFraser, JLampkin, JaLampkin, TPalmer, EPerry, NPrine.