Sighting for November 9, 2021

Ron Smith

Fort De Soto Park
Pinellas County, FL

(18-556) Sunny with temps reaching 82. Fairly strong N-NE winds the past three days produced a county-high count of migrating Monarchs, which were taking advantage of blooming saltbush & goldenrod.

  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Statira Sulphur 5
  • Barred Yellow 8
  • Little Yellow 6
  • Dainty Sulphur 3
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 1
  • Cassius Blue 5
  • Ceraunus Blue 13
  • Gulf Fritillary 27
  • Zebra Heliconian 4
  • Phaon Crescent 4
  • Common Buckeye 27
  • Mangrove Buckeye 2
  • White Peacock 34
  • Monarch 409
  • Queen 3
  • Mangrove Skipper 2
  • White Checkered-Skipper 2

Monarch

Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak

Mangrove Skipper

Monarch

Monarch

Monarch

Statira Sulphur