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| List: Carolina-Leps Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2025 09:51:05 -0400 (EDT) From: <dallen5...> Subject: from the north central coast of SC |
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Francis Marion National Forest, Berkely County, SC, Road 212: first 150 yds going north from its end at Highway 45 August 6, 2025. 1130 am-1240 pm. Dennis and Wendy Allen Black Swallowtail 4 Palamedes Swallowtail 3 Cloudless Sulphur 2 Little Yellow 11 (one white form) Gray Hairstreak 1 Red-banded Hairstreak 1 Little Metalmark 6 Pearl Crescent 2 Common Buckeye 1 Horace's Duskywing 6 Zarucco Duskywing 1 Swarthy Skipper 2 Clouded Skipper 6 Crossline Skipper 3 Southern Broken-Dash 9 Little Glassywing 4 Delaware Skipper 3 Byssus Skipper 3 Yehl Skipper 4 Dun Skipper 2 Reversed Roadside Skipper 1 Twin-spot Skipper 1 unidentified/worn skippers 3 Thousands of yellow rosinweed flowers were being used by all of the listed species except Little Yellows. Two Little Metalmarks were on Sneeze-weed. ----------------------- Francis Marion National Forest, Charleston County, SC, Road 211: going north from Highway 45 to 204 August 6, 2025. 1:00-1:40 pm. Dennis and Wendy Allen Pipevine Swallowtail 1 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1 Palamedes Swallowtail 8 Little Yellow 8 Sleepy Orange 1 Gulf Fritillary 1 Monarch 2 Queen 1 (our first in the FMNF) on Rattlesnake Master Horace's Duskywing 1 Byssus Skipper 2 Short drive-through on 211 mainly to see if Eryngium (blue flowers) was in bloom near the bridge- not yet. No rosinweed on this road but lots of Rattlesnake Master and Hyptis, and some Ironweed. Very different than 212 and very few skippers despite abundant flowers. |
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