Sighting for July 16, 2022
Linda Cooper
Hardee County roadsides
Hardee County, FL
- Black Swallowtail 3
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
- Great Southern White 13
- Cloudless Sulphur 12
- Barred Yellow 2
- Sleepy Orange 10
- Dainty Sulphur 9
- Gray Hairstreak 5
- Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 17
- Cassius Blue 2
- Ceraunus Blue 12
- Common Buckeye 2
- White Peacock 15
- Viceroy 4
- Carolina Satyr 1
- Monarch 1
- Queen 1
- Dorantes Longtail 1
- Horace's Duskywing 3
- Zarucco Duskywing 2
- White Checkered-Skipper 23
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper 2
- Clouded Skipper 1
- Southern Skipperling 8
- Fiery Skipper 37
- Whirlabout 10
- Southern Broken-Dash 5
- Sachem 3
- Eufala Skipper 6
- Ocola Skipper 2
Fiery Skipper
Fiery Skipper
Tropical Checkered-Skipper
White Peacock
Southern Skipperling
Horace's Duskywing
White Checkered-Skipper
Sachem
Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak
Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak
Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak
Hardee & Highlands Cos. roadsides (mostly rural Hardee Co) as part of the Highlands Hammock State Park 25th annual NABA count. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. when rain stopped the count. 78°-90°, winds light. Sun a.m.-90%, p.m.-40% then rain. Nectar: frogfruit, Spanish needles, sida spp, richardia spp, diodia spp, twinevine. Explosion of Mallow Scrub-Hairstreaks north of their typical range. LCooper, SFarnsworth.