The first Savannah NWR butterfly count was held on June 7, 2014 with mostly clear skies, warm temperatures and light winds. Ten observers in four parties tallied 43 species and 219 individual butterflies. We had the following:

Pipevine Swallowtail 2
Black Swallowtail 8
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1 dark female
Spicebush Swallowtail 2
Zebra Swallowtail 4
Checkered White 2 new county record
Orange Sulfur 3
Cloudless Sulfur 1
Sleepy Orange 1
Red-banded Hairstreak 1
Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
Summer Azure 1
Gulf Fritillary 7
Variegated Fritillary 2
American Lady 1
Red Admiral 1
Common Buckeye 15
Red-spotted Purple 3
Viceroy 10
Hackberry Emperor 6
Tawny Emperor 1
Southern Pearly-eye 2
Appalachian Brown 1
Gemmed Satyr 5
Carolina Satyr 17
Little Wood Satyr 1
Silver-spotted Skipper 3
Zarucco Duskywing 9
White Checkered-Skipper 2
Tropical Checkered-Skipper 1
Least Skipper 13
Southern Skipperling 10
Fiery Skipper 14
Northern Broken-Dash 3
Sachem 1
Byssus Skipper 1
Rare Skipper 3
Zebulon Skipper 1
Broad-winged Skipper 51
Dion Skipper 1
Salt Marsh Skipper 1
spread-winged skipper sp. 1
White sp. 1

Theresa Thom (compiler) and Dennis Forsythe
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Dennis M. Forsythe PhD
South Carolina Ebird Reviewer
Emeritus Professor of Biology
The Citadel
dennis.forsythe@gmail.com