We had 15 participants on the Cuddo Unit, Santee National Wildlife
Refuge trip Saturday, 14 April. We started at ~12:45 pm and drove in a
caravan throughout the roadways and stopped when we saw butterflies or
flowers (pretty much only toadflax and lyre-leaved sage, also a
hawthorn). We finished at ~4:00 pm. The list of species and estimated
numbers follows:
Spicebush Swallowtail - 13
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 3
Pipevine Swallowtail - 1 (female ovipositing on Virginia Snakeroot
(Aristolochia serpentaria)
Cloudless Sulphur - 12
Sleepy Orange - 15
Monarch - 3
American Lady - 7
Pearl Crescent - 3
Red-spotted Purple - 4
Carolina Satyr - 11
Silver-spotted Skipper - 6
Horace's Duskywing - 3
Broad-winged Skipper - 2
Clouded Skipper - 1
Common/white Checkered Skipper - 1
Billy McCord McCordB@dnr.sc.gov
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