Interactive Butterfly CD
Butterflies of the
Carolinas & Virginias

On day two of my trip I wanted to do Ocala National Forest but it was very foggy and too cool for butterflies. I did drive over to Hopkins Prairie but found way too many hunters for my taste. So I headed south towards Lake Kissimmee State Park (LKSP) on my way it became sunny and I found a weedy place along the road next to a huge orange grove and made my first stop.

It wasn't long before I found my second and third lifer butterflies Dainty Sulphur and Barred Yellow. Soon both lifers became very common the rest of the day. I really hit good numbers on my second day especially on Ocola Skippers. Once in Lake Kissimmee State Park I met several birders and was told of the pair of Whooping Cranes there, I could hear the cranes cooing but never located them.

Here`s the list for Polk County Florida.

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (8) monsters!! 2 dark form females
Palamedes Swallowtail (1) very worn in LKSP
Great Southern White (3) fly by's, doubtful to be anything else
Cloudless Sulphur (15) photos
Barred Yellow (27) photos
Little Yellow (3)
Sleepy Orange (1)
Dainty Sulphur (18) photos
Great Purple Hairstreak (1) on aster
White M Hairstreak (1) photo on golden rod in LKSP
Gray Hairstreak (1)
Zebra Longwing (13)
Ceraunus Blue (1)
Gulf Fritillary (28+) photos
Pearl Crescent (1)
White Peacock (26+) photos of mated pair!
Viceroy (6) photo in LKSP
Carolina Satyr (6)
Monarch (5)
Queen (13)
Long-tailed Skipper (28+) photos
Dorantes Longtail (4)
Common Checkered Skipper (4)
Clouded Skipper (2)
Least Skipper (10)
Southern Skipperling (5)
Fiery Skipper (12)
Whirlabout (8) photos in LKSP
Sachem (12)
Ocola Skipper (200+) photos on every bidens nearly!

Headed southeast from LKSP to spend the night in Okeechobee so Fort Lauderdale would be fairly easy to get to in the morning.

Ceraunus Blue, Hemiargus ceraunus (male)
(above & below) on Spanish Needles

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White M Hairstreak, Parrhasius m-album
White Peacock, Anartia jatrophae pair mating
Barred Yellow, Eurema daira on Spanish needles
Dainty Sulphur, Nathalis iole
Dorante`s Longtail, Urbanus dorantes

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