Sighting for June 24, 2021
Linda Cooper
Disney Wilderness Preserve
Osceola County, FL
- Zebra Swallowtail 21
- Black Swallowtail 14
- Giant Swallowtail 4
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 9
- Spicebush Swallowtail 12
- Palamedes Swallowtail 20
- Great Southern White 1
- Cloudless Sulphur 2
- Orange-barred Sulphur 10
- Barred Yellow 1
- Little Yellow 6
- Sleepy Orange 3
- Dainty Sulphur 19
- Gray Hairstreak 57
- Red-banded Hairstreak 2
- Cassius Blue 9
- Ceraunus Blue 16
- Little Metalmark 3
- Gulf Fritillary 6
- Zebra Heliconian 1
- Phaon Crescent 4
- Pearl Crescent 9
- Common Buckeye 9
- White Peacock 75
- Viceroy 3
- Ruddy Daggerwing 3
- Hackberry Emperor 1
- Tawny Emperor 1
- Carolina Satyr 11
- Georgia Satyr 3
- Monarch 1
- Queen 12
- Dorantes Longtail 6
- Northern Cloudywing 4
- Horace's Duskywing 17
- Zarucco Duskywing 29
- White Checkered-Skipper 2
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
- Swarthy Skipper 2
- Three-spotted Skipper 1
- Clouded Skipper 7
- Least Skipper 1
- Southern Skipperling 9
- Fiery Skipper 42
- Tawny-edged Skipper 6
- Whirlabout 16
- Southern Broken-Dash 5
- Sachem 3
- Delaware Skipper 15
- Palmetto Skipper 2
- Berry's Skipper 1
- Ocola Skipper 10
Queen
Zarucco Duskywing
Zebra Swallowtail
Ruddy Daggerwing
Ruddy Daggerwing
Gray Hairstreak
Berry's Skipper
Berry's Skipper
DWP is in both Polk and Osceola Counties. 25th Annual NABA count. Weather: 78°-86°, light winds, sun a.m.-20%; p.m.-90%. 2 teams inside DWP, 1 team outside DWP. Ruddy Daggerwings again - north of their range. Small colony along the creek in 1999-2000 then frozen out. 1 sighting in 2008 and none since then. Active courtship behavior observed. Brazilian Skipper caterpillar only, no adults. Participants: IBiazzo, EBraatz, LCooper, SFarnsworth, KKane, DMiller, TPalmer, NPrine, PRoyston