The Carolina Butterfly Society had a great trip to the Myrtle Beach area this weekend for our butterfly walk at Brookgreen Gardens. Saturday started cool and cloudy, but the sun came out by mid morning and stayed with us all day. We saw 21 species of butterflies on Saturday, and brought that total up to 23  the
next day. 

Most notable was the enormous number of Long-tailed Skippers; there were thousands of them throughout the weekend, so many that we gave up trying to count them. First runner up was Cloudless Sulfur, most heading north, which numbered in the hundreds. Ocola Skippers ran a close third in terms of numbers. Monarchs were scarce, however. We only saw one on Saturday at Brookgreen, although those folks who stayed over on Sunday saw about a dozen, all heading north, in Huntington Beach State Park.

Our list of butterflies (plus approximate numbers) included: