Jump to :     |    View All Lists    |    FAQ
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.