Sighting for March 13, 2016
Craig Marks
Wild Azalea Seep and Castor Plunge Road w/i Kisatchie NF
Rapides Parish, LA
- Pipevine Swallowtail 11
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
- Spicebush Swallowtail 4
- Palamedes Swallowtail 2
- Falcate Orangetip 23
- Cloudless Sulphur 5
- Frosted Elfin 19
- Red-banded Hairstreak 9
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
- Phaon Crescent 4
- Pearl Crescent 25+
- Common Buckeye 2
- Goatweed Leafwing 2
- Gemmed Satyr 10+
- Carolina Satyr 10
- Silver-spotted Skipper 1
- Sleepy Duskywing 2
- Juvenal's Duskywing 4
- Horace's Duskywing 1
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
- Pepper and Salt Skipper 10
Nice spring day, with temps in mid-70’s, breezy and mostly sun. The Frosted Elfins were fresh, both males and females (found two new colonies). The wild Indigo is already 15-20” high. The Falcate OTs were primarily females (only 3 males) suggesting their flight is almost over. The Pepper & Salt RS Sks were all fresh, usually seen in fewer numbers. Lots of duskywings flying, either Juvenal’s or Horace’s.