On Sunday, 4/9, a group of us* explored the Carolina Sandhills National
Wildlife Refuge, a few miles north of McBee, SC. Weather warmed up from the
low 50s at 10 am into the 60s when we quit about 2:30, all under bright
sunny skies with a stiff breeze. It was a great first group butterfly
outing of the year for several of us; no ticks or mosquitos and quite a few
butterflies, even a few COUNTY RECORDS.
1 Zebra Swallowtail
1 Black Swallowtail
13 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
18 Spicebush Swallowtail most prevalent species of the day!
7 Palamedes Swallowtail
12 Clouded Sulphur NEW COUNTY RECORD
2 Orange Sulphur
1 Gray Hairstreak
2 Red-banded Hairstreak
5 Eastern Tailed Blue
3 Azure
1 Pearl Crescent
2 Red Admiral
5 American Lady
11 Common Buckeye -very small
1 Monarch -very fresh NEW COUNTY RECORD
2 Silver Spotted Skipper
3 Southern Cloudywing
1 Confused Cloudywing
1 Sleepy Duskywing
7 Juvenals Duskywing
2 Fiery Skipper
1 Reversed Roadside Skipper NEW COUNTY RECORD
Also seen; Fence Swift (Sceloporus undulatus)
*Charlie Cameron, Robin Carter, Steve Dennis, Jules Fraytet, Dennis
Forsythe, Ben Gregory, Den & Allison Latham, Jim Nottke, Julie Wilking
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