Cleveland Swamp is private property located just east of Fort Jackson. Sudie Daves, our trip leader, has done some work there and knows the land owners who welcomed our chapter on their property. We began our walk at 10:00 near the vegetable and flower garden planted by one of the land owners. From there we proceeded down the dirt road by car, stopping when we sighted butterflies. We drove through wooded areas, open sunny areas, swampy areas and near the Wateree River. In attendance were Sudie Daves, John Hardaway and Dave and Marty Kastner.
Our sightings were:
1 Variegated Fritillary
6 Common Buckeye
2 Cabbage White
8 Palamedes Swallowtail
1 Spicebush Swallowtail
1 Pipevine Swallowtail
3 Tiger Swallowtail
31 Zebra Swallowtail
5 Horace?s Duskywing
1 Sleepy Orange
1 Common Checkered Skipper
1 Morning Cloak
1 Gemmed Satyr
2 Gray Hairstreak
1 Fiery Skipper
2 Red Admiral
22 Pearl Crescent
7 Snout
1 Red Spotted Admiral
2 Tawny Emperor
3 Hackberry Emperor
2 Eastern Tailed Blue
1 Least Skipper
1 Question Mark
1 Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper
3 Carolina Satyr
1 American Lady
1 Anglewing species
1 American Lady Caterpillar
18 Caterpillars on Baptisia (probably moth caterpillars, but I couldn't identify the exact one.
Totals:
28 butterfly species
2 caterpillar species
1 egg (probably Red Spotted Admiral)
112 butterflies
American Lady Caterpillar on Cudweed
American Snout
American Snout on Binoculars
Gemmed Satyr
Hackberry Emperor
Lace-winged Roadside Skipper
Pearl Crescent
Tawny Emperor
Zebra Swallowtail
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