Date: 14 Sept. 2015
Loc: Calhoun Co. East
Obs: Donna and Dennis Forsythe
Time: 1115-11215; 1400-1600 hours
Effort: 18 mi
Coverage: Purple Martin Marsh, Wise Rd below Ft. Motte, Lang Syne Rd, Lone Star Rd, St Matthews City Park and vicinity
Weather: 70-82 f, clear, N wind
Roadsides and ditches in agricultural areas clean, no habitat for butterflies, Checkered White probably extirpated from area.
Species:
E. Tiger Swallowtail 8 including 1 dark and 1 intermediate female
Spicebush Swallowtail 1
Palamedes Swallowtail 4
Cloudless Sulfur 60
Little Yellow 1
Sleepy Orange 30
Red-banded Hairstreak 2
Gray Hairstreak 2
Eastern tailed-Blue 8
Summer Azure 1
American Snout 2
Gulf Fritillary 25
Variegated Fritillary 20
American Lady 1
Common Buckeye 2
Pearl Crescent 2
Red-spotted Purple 15
Viceroy 1
Monarch 1
Silver-spotted Skipper 3
Long-tailed Skipper 3
Horace’s Duskywing 2
Zarucco Duskywing 8
White Checkered-Skipper 6
Clouded Skipper 1 very worn
Southern Skipperling 2
Fiery Skipper 15
Whirlabout 1
Dun Skipper 1
Ocola Skipper 4
Dennis
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Dennis M. Forsythe PhD
South Carolina Ebird Reviewer
Emeritus Professor of Biology
[email protected]