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List: Carolina-Leps
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2025 08:22:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: <dallen5...>
Subject: from the north central coast of SC

Francis Marion National Forest, Rt 211 southwest from Rt 45 to C10-216
Charleston County. Rt 212 from Rt 45 northeast to Rt 204 Berkeley County, SC.
June 1, 2025 10:15 am -3:00 pm
Dennis and Wendy Allen with Bobbie and Ladson McCutchen

Pipevine Swallowtail 78
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 31
Palamedes Swallowtail 8
Little Yellow 2
Sleepy Orange 1
Banded Hairstreak 2
Gray Hairstreak 6
Red-banded Hairstreak 19
Summer Azure (likely, in flight) 2
Little Metalmark 3
Pearl Crescent 50 counted plus about 50 more
American Lady 6
Red Admiral 1
Common Buckeye 4
Red-spotted Purple 5
unidentified Pearly-eye 1
Carolina Satyr 1
unidentified small satyrs 4
Georgia Satyr 2
Little Wood-Satyr 2
Monarch 14
Silver-spotted Skipper 2
Hoary Edge 1
Southern Cloudywing 5
Horace's Duskywing 22
Zarucco Duskywing 18
unidentified duskywings 25
White Checkered-Skipper 1
Swarthy Skipper 2
Clouded Skipper 4
Fiery Skipper 2
Tawny-edged Skipper 3
Crossline Skipper 2
Whirlabout 1
Southern Broken-Dash 3
Little Glassywing 2
Delaware Skipper 22
Byssus Skipper 24
Yehl Skipper 2
Dion Skipper 2
Dun Skipper 5
Lace-winged Road-side Skipper 1
Reversed Road-side Skipper 34
Twin-spot Skipper 15
unidentified dark skippers 6

Almost all Swallowtails and most Skippers on Thistle (red) which has now just
passed its peak.
Almost all Hairstreaks on New Jersey Tea which is at peak.
Most Crescents, Cloudywings, Metalmarks, and Hoary Edge on abundant yellow
composites of multiple varieties.
Duskywings on all types of flowers and the roads.