Sighting for October 6, 2012
Linda Cooper
Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park
Okeechobee County, FL
- Zebra Swallowtail 2
- Black Swallowtail 62
- Spicebush Swallowtail 2
- Palamedes Swallowtail 25
- Great Southern White 2
- Cloudless Sulphur 23
- Barred Yellow 16
- Little Yellow 33
- Sleepy Orange 2
- Red-banded Hairstreak 2
- Ceraunus Blue 3
- Little Metalmark 1
- Gulf Fritillary 17
- Zebra Heliconian 1
- Phaon Crescent 6
- Pearl Crescent 16
- Common Buckeye 26
- White Peacock 77
- Viceroy 6
- Carolina Satyr 20
- Georgia Satyr 1
- Queen 4
- Long-tailed Skipper 6
- Dorantes Longtail 1
- Horace's Duskywing 5
- Zarucco Duskywing 1
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper 2
- Swarthy Skipper 7
- Fiery Skipper 22
- Meske's Skipper 1
- Tawny-edged Skipper 6
- Whirlabout 8
- Southern Broken-Dash 4
- Delaware Skipper 9
- Aaron's Skipper 15
- Palmetto Skipper 14
- Palatka Skipper 1
- Berry's Skipper 7
- Eufala Skipper 5
- Twin-spot Skipper 12
- Ocola Skipper 20
Palmetto Skipper
This is what is affectionately known as ‘The Death by Skipper’ trip undertaken annually in October. Linda Cooper, Dave and Marga Cutler, Sue Farnsworth, Dusty and Laurel Rhodes, Jean Evoy, Bob Vance. KPPSP is as wet as we have seen it in several years. October rainfall here is already above average.