Sighting for October 5, 2012
Linda and Buck Cooper and Central Florida Nature Fest participants
Disney Wilderness Preserve
Polk County, FL
- Zebra Swallowtail 10
- Black Swallowtail 8
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5
- Spicebush Swallowtail 5
- Palamedes Swallowtail 16
- Cloudless Sulphur 50
- Barred Yellow 25
- Little Yellow 25
- Sleepy Orange 8
- Gray Hairstreak 1
- Red-banded Hairstreak 1
- Gulf Fritillary 5
- Zebra Heliconian 2
- Common Buckeye 10
- White Peacock 6
- Viceroy 2
- Hackberry Emperor 1
- Carolina Satyr 12
- Monarch 1
- Queen 8
- Soldier 1
- Long-tailed Skipper 15
- Dorantes Longtail 1
- Northern Cloudywing 1
- Horace's Duskywing 2
- Zarucco Duskywing 1
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper 4
- Clouded Skipper 3
- Fiery Skipper 2
- Whirlabout 3
- Southern Broken-Dash 2
- Delaware Skipper 1
- Palmetto Skipper 2
- Twin-spot Skipper 3
- Brazilian Skipper 1
- Ocola Skipper 4
Soldier
This 11,000 preserve covers both Polk and Osceola Counties. This field trip was part of the Central Florida Nature Fest. We covered the area by swamp buggy, totally necessary because of all the rain central Florida has received this summer and fall. Soldier are not common this far north.