Sighting for June 16, 2021

Linda Cooper

Bull Creek Wildlife Management Area
Osceola County, FL

16th annual NABA Butterfly Count. It covers three properties - Bull Creek WMA, Triple N Ranch WMA & Forever Florida. 9 am - 4 pm. Rain cut count short. Weather: 77°-84°, winds 8-13 mph, sun all day: 0%. Nectar ranged from plentiful to scarce depending on the site. LCooper, SFarnsworth, TPalmer, EPerry, NPrine.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 14
  • Black Swallowtail 4
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 18
  • Great Southern White 4
  • Cloudless Sulphur 3
  • Barred Yellow 3
  • Little Yellow 10
  • Sleepy Orange 2
  • Dainty Sulphur 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 295
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 3
  • Cassius Blue 2
  • Ceraunus Blue 23
  • Little Metalmark 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 4
  • Zebra Heliconian 13
  • Phaon Crescent 5
  • Pearl Crescent 14
  • Common Buckeye 25
  • White Peacock 6
  • Viceroy 3
  • Tawny Emperor 1
  • Carolina Satyr 14
  • Georgia Satyr 7
  • Monarch 6
  • Queen 5
  • Northern Cloudywing 12
  • Confused Cloudywing 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 13
  • Zarucco Duskywing 24
  • White Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Swarthy Skipper 10
  • Three-spotted Skipper 1
  • Clouded Skipper 1
  • Southern Skipperling 4
  • Fiery Skipper 13
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 8
  • Whirlabout 14
  • Southern Broken-Dash 1
  • Delaware Skipper 10
  • Palmetto Skipper 1
  • Monk Skipper 1
  • Dusted Skipper 1
  • Eufala Skipper 1

Little Yellow

Viceroy

Gray Hairstreak

Delaware Skipper, Swarthy Skipper

Delaware Skipper

Cassius Blue

Zebra Swallowtail

Swarthy Skipper

Horace's Duskywing

Horace's Duskywing

Horace's Duskywing

Palmetto Skipper

Zarucco Duskywing

Whirlabout

Delaware Skipper