Sighting for September 1, 2014
Jim Egbert
County Rd 87, North of I10
Baldwin County, AL
- Black Swallowtail 3
- Giant Swallowtail 2
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail superabundant
- Spicebush Swallowtail abundant
- Palamedes Swallowtail superabundant
- Cloudless Sulphur abundant
- Little Yellow common
- Sleepy Orange common
- Gray Hairstreak 5
- Gulf Fritillary abundant
- Common Buckeye abundant
- Red-spotted Purple 4
- Viceroy 2
- Carolina Satyr common
- Silver-spotted Skipper common
- Long-tailed Skipper 6
- Juvenal's Duskywing 2
- Horace's Duskywing common
- Common Checkered-Skipper common
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper 4
- Clouded Skipper common
- Southern Skipperling 1
- Fiery Skipper common
- Whirlabout 6
- Delaware Skipper 1
- Dun Skipper 1
- Twin-spot Skipper 3
- Brazilian Skipper 1
- Ocola Skipper 4
This area is managed by a timber co.; and it is swarming with hundreds of Papilio Swallowtails with large numbers of Cloudless Sulphur, and Gulf Fritillary. It was an amazing day.
Juvenal’s Duskywings were a mated pair. The identification was from the female, with its 2 spots on the ventral side of the hindwing. The interesting thing is the male was a light chocolate brown, with little to no mottling dorsal or ventral.