Sighting for October 23, 2014
Jim Egbert
north side of Intra Coastal Waterway;from N East 1st St ,west to Plash Island Gulf Shores
Baldwin County, AL
- Cloudless Sulphur 8
- Little Yellow 6
- Sleepy Orange 4
- Gray Hairstreak 1
- Red-banded Hairstreak common
- Gulf Fritillary 12
- Variegated Fritillary 1
- Pearl Crescent 1
- Question Mark 1
- Painted Lady 6
- Common Buckeye common
- Monarch common
- Long-tailed Skipper 5
- Common Checkered-Skipper common
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper 4
- Clouded Skipper 2
- Fiery Skipper 6
- Whirlabout 2
- Southern Broken-Dash 4
- Salt Marsh Skipper 1
- Ocola Skipper 12+
A dry cold front moved past yesterday; making it down right cold this morning; warmed into mid 70s by noon. That front was the push; that brought a big wave of Monarchs to the Alabama coast.Today I went back to where I saw A. jatrophae last Friday; mower had trimmed the area back some since my last visit. The White Peacock was not sighted, but a Funereal Duskywing was.
I picked up several road kills in East Point Fla; Long Tailed Skippers, Gulf Fritillary, Buckeye, and Monarchs some of them had fire ants already working on them, I knocked off as many ants as possible an put the butterflies on the floor board of the car. Then today at my 1st stop today; I found that one of the road kill Monarchs had risen from the dead, and was flipping around inside the back wind shield. I released, it and it went to a Lantana bush just off the street, and a few mins. later it was gone.