List: Carolina-Leps
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2025 14:46:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: <dallen5...> Subject: from the north central coast of SC |
Francis Marion National Forest, Coffee Swamp, Rt C-10-154 north starting at Rt 220, Berkeley County, SC June 27, 2025. 10:00-11:45 am. Dennis and Wendy Allen
Pipevine Swallowtail 2 Black Swallowtail 3 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail yellow 38 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail dark 4 Spicebush Swallowtail 6 Palamedes Swallowtail counted 160 and saw at least 50 more after stopped counting, quite a show unidentified dark swallowtails in flight 15 Texan Crescent 5 not nectaring Pearl Crescent 6 Common Buckeye 2 Red-spotted Purple 1 Monarch 2 Silver-spotted Skipper 4 Southern Cloudywing 5 unidentified cloudywings 2 Horace's Duskywing 3 Zarucco Duskywing 3 unidentified duskywings 3 Clouded Skipper 15 Dun Skipper 3 Lace-winged Roadside Skipper 1
Hundreds of tall white Thistle (likely Cirsium sp.) in bloom accounted for almost all swallowtails and skippers.
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