Yesterday I led a butterfly walk through the flower gardens at
Brookgreen
Gardens, Georgetown Co., SC from 10-12 in excellent
weather. We had the
following:
Black Swallowtail-2
GIANT SWALLOWTAIL-1 very worn
Palamedes Swallowtail-4
Cloudless Sulfur-15+
Gulf Fritillary-10
Common
Buckeye-1
Red-spotted Purple-1
Long-tailed Skipper-10
Clouded
Skipper-10
Fiery Skipper-8
Whirlabout-1
Broad-winged Skipper-1
Ocola
Skipper-2
On the way back to Charleston we stopped in a power
right-of-way in
Long-leaf Pine Woods near Acadia Plantation were there was a
lot of
Carphephous sp. and Blazing Star. We had:
Palamedes Swallowtail-2
Cloudless Sulfur-2
Little Yellow-5
Gray Hairstreak-1 very worn
Common
Buckeye-5
Fiery Skipper-2
Eufala Skipper-1
Cheers,
Dennis
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Dennis M. Forsythe PhD
Charleston, SC 29412
843.795.3996-home
843.953.7264-fax
843.708.1605-cell
dennis.forsythe@gmail.com
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