The second Savannah NWR butterfly count was held on June 6, 2015 with mostly clear skies, warm temperatures and light winds. Three observers in two parties tallied 30 species and 135 individual butterflies. We had the following:

Black Swallowtail 8
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
Spicebush Swallowtail 2
Palamedes Swallowtail 5
Orange Sulfur 1
Cloudless Sulfur 1
Sleepy Orange 4
Red-banded Hairstreak 7
Gulf Fritillary 1
Common Buckeye 15
Red-spotted Purple 5
Hackberry Emperor 5
Tawny Emperor 3
Carolina Satyr 8
Horace’s Duskywing 2
Zarucco Duskywing 3
White Checkered-Skipper 1
Tropical Checkered-Skipper 5
Clouded Skipper 1
Least Skipper 6
Southern Skipperling 1
Fiery Skipper 18
Southern Broken-Dash 3
Sachem 1
Rare Skipper 1
Broad-winged Skipper 12
PALATKA SKIPPER 2
Salt Marsh Skipper 5

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