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| List: Carolina-Leps Date: Wed, 20 May 2026 21:09:28 -0400 From: <dallen5...> Subject: from the north central South Carolina coast |
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Francis Marion National Forest, Berkeley County, SC. FR 204- started at Wambaw Bridge and ended about 1.5 miles to the west. May 19, 2026. 10:15 am - 12:20 pm. Mostly sunny, 77 F. Dennis and Wendy Allen Pipevine Swallowtail 8 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1 Spicebush Swallowtail 1 Palamedes Swallowtail 1 unidentified dark swallowtails 4 Cloudless Sulphur 2 Banded Hairstreak 1 (FOY) Gray Hairstreak 7 Spring/Summer Azure 1 Pearl Crescent 14 American Lady 2 Common Buckeye 1 Monarch 1 Southern Cloudywing 1 Horace's Duskywing 12 Fiery Skipper 1 Twin-spot Skipper 1 Lots of yellow flowers, mostly Coreopsis (perhaps lobed Tickweed) and Silphium (perhaps Starry Rosinweed) but they were only used by some duskywings and Pearl Crescents. Butterflyweed hosted all dark swallowtail species (identified) and Monarch. Banded Hairstreak, most Gray Hairstreaks, and most Horace's Duskywings were on New Jersey Tea; about half of those plants were in full flower. Red Thistle (locally considered a 'skipper magnet') is not common along this stretch of FS 204 but is abundant in other parts of the forest. It will be peaking within the next two weeks. |
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