Sighting for February 10, 2023

Jeff Gesell

Celery Fields and Twin Lakes Parks
Sarasota County, FL

Warm, breezy, partly cloudy, 87 degrees. Great variety out today at Celery Fields Park - particularly on the hilltop - and staggering numbers of Atala seen at Twin Lakes.

  • Black Swallowtail 4
  • Great Southern White 6
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Barred Yellow 15
  • Dainty Sulphur 4
  • Atala abundant
  • Ceraunus Blue abundant
  • Red Admiral 1
  • White Peacock 10
  • Monarch 20
  • Queen 8
  • Long-tailed Skipper 1
  • White Checkered-Skipper 2
  • Tropical Checkered-Skipper common
  • Southern Skipperling 1

Barred Yellow

Atala

Atala

Atala

Tropical Checkered-Skipper

Long-tailed Skipper

Black Swallowtail

White Peacock

Queen

Queen

Monarch

Dainty Sulphur

Southern Skipperling

Ceraunus Blue

White Checkered-Skipper