Sighting for October 2, 2016

Linda Cooper

Bull Creek WMA
Osceola County, FL

9:15 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. then rain. 78*-89*, light winds. Sun a.m. - 90%, p.m. 10%. Bullied by Skipper annual field trip. BCooper, LCooper, SFarnsworth, REpstein, SHalling, BMarts, MOrsie, TPendleton, DRhodes, LRhodes, GSchepker, MSmith. Southern end of range for Dotted Skipper.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 25
  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 5
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 13
  • Cloudless Sulphur 25
  • Barred Yellow 10
  • Little Yellow 34
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 11
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Ceraunus Blue 3
  • Little Metalmark 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 3
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Common Buckeye 18
  • White Peacock 4
  • Viceroy 3
  • Carolina Satyr 6
  • Queen 2
  • Long-tailed Skipper 21
  • Dorantes Longtail 1
  • Northern Cloudywing 7
  • Confused Cloudywing 2
  • Horace's Duskywing 13
  • Zarucco Duskywing 4
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Swarthy Skipper 3
  • Least Skipper 2
  • Southern Skipperling 1
  • Fiery Skipper 6
  • Dotted Skipper 7
  • Meske's Skipper 5
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 8
  • Whirlabout 9
  • Southern Broken-Dash 11
  • Sachem 2
  • Arogos Skipper 141
  • Delaware Skipper 2
  • Palmetto Skipper 42
  • Monk Skipper 2
  • Dusted Skipper 17
  • Eufala Skipper 2
  • Twin-spot Skipper 11
  • Ocola Skipper 15

Meske's Skipper

Dusted Skipper

Dusted Skipper

Dotted Skipper

Arogos Skipper

Arogos Skipper, Dusted Skipper

Arogos Skipper

Palmetto Skipper

Dusted Skipper