Sighting for July 13, 2021
Roy Cohutta
Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge
Jones County, GA
- Pipevine Swallowtail 13
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
- Cloudless Sulphur 3
- Barred Yellow 6
- Little Yellow 10
- Sleepy Orange 7
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
- Gulf Fritillary 4
- Variegated Fritillary 1
- Silvery Checkerspot 1
- Pearl Crescent 3
- Common Buckeye 1
- Hackberry Emperor 1
- Northern Pearly-eye 1
- Gemmed Satyr 1
- Carolina Satyr 20
- Hoary Edge common
- Southern Cloudywing 15
- Northern Cloudywing 1
- Horace's Duskywing 2
- Fiery Skipper 1
- Dun Skipper 1
Eastern Tailed-Blue
Dun Skipper
Fiery Skipper
Hackberry Emperor
Southern Cloudywing
Pipevine Swallowtail
Northern Pearly-eye
Silvery Checkerspot
Hoary Edge
Little Yellow
Gemmed Satyr
Barred Yellow
0945-1615, 75-87F, S-SE 2-9MPH, Cloud Cover 86>57%, Very overcast with some heavy and light rain in the morning/early afternoon kept the count low. Became very nice around mid-afternoon and the butterflies came out. Piedmont of Georgia, Pine dominated upland areas, hardwood bottomlands, creeks, ponds, open fields, gravel roadsides. Ticks were not nearly as plentiful as last trip here.
A Barred Yellow and a Hackberry Emperor apparently liked my sweat.
Last time here (6/28), there were Pearl Crescent everywhere. This time there were Hoary Edge everywhere.