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Annutteliga Butterfly Count with Clint Gibson; participants in other parties included Linda Cooper, Lori & Ron Smith, Julie Appleget, John Lampkin, and others. This is Stop #6: a return to the southwest corner of Trail 13 and Trail 20. I left at 1617 and headed home.

Our (tentative) totals for the day are:

Pipevine Swallowtail (2)
Zebra Swallowtail (6)
Spicebush Swallowtail (4)
Southern Dogface (40)
Little Yellow (1)
Barred Yellow (4)
Cloudless Sulphur (11)
Great Purple Hairstreak (2)
White M Hairstreak (1)
"Southern" Oak Hairstreak (23)
Red-banded Hairstreak (1)
Gray Hairstreak (1)
Ceraunus Blue (2)
Gulf Fritillary (43)
Phaon Crescent (4)
Red Admiral (11)
American Lady (14)
Common Buckeye (13)
Carolina Satyr (6)
Monarch (2)
Horace's Duskywing
Neamathla Skipper (1)
Eufala Skipper (1)
Whirlabout (11)
"Seminole" Dotted Skipper (1)

Annutteliga Butterfly Count with Clint Gibson; participants in other parties included Linda Cooper, Lori & Ron Smith, Julie Appleget, John Lampkin, and others. This is Stop #2: Brittle Road from CR-480 south to Trail 26, then return to CR-480. We searched many Sparkleberry bushes but found little until around 1200, when butterflies (especially hairstreaks) became numerous. We returned to CR-480 at 1300 and headed to Stage Coach Cemetery.

Our (tentative) totals for the day are:

Pipevine Swallowtail (2)
Zebra Swallowtail (6)
Spicebush Swallowtail (4)
Southern Dogface (40)
Little Yellow (1)
Barred Yellow (4)
Cloudless Sulphur (11)
Great Purple Hairstreak (2)
White M Hairstreak (1)
"Southern" Oak Hairstreak (23)
Red-banded Hairstreak (1)
Gray Hairstreak (1)
Ceraunus Blue (2)
Gulf Fritillary (43)
Phaon Crescent (4)
Red Admiral (11)
American Lady (14)
Common Buckeye (13)
Carolina Satyr (6)
Monarch (2)
Horace's Duskywing
Neamathla Skipper (1)
Eufala Skipper (1)
Whirlabout (11)
"Seminole" Dotted Skipper (1)

Annutteliga Butterfly Count with Clint Gibson; participants in other parties included Linda Cooper, Lori & Ron Smith, Julie Appleget, John Lampkin, and others. This is Stop #1; the southwest junction of Trail 13 and Trail 20 in Withlacoochee State Forest, Citrus Tract. Clint and I left at 0930 and drove south to CR-480, then west to Brittle Road and south.

Our (tentative) totals for the day are:

Pipevine Swallowtail (2)
Zebra Swallowtail (6)
Spicebush Swallowtail (4)
Southern Dogface (40)
Little Yellow (1)
Barred Yellow (4)
Cloudless Sulphur (11)
Great Purple Hairstreak (2)
White M Hairstreak (1)
"Southern" Oak Hairstreak (23)
Red-banded Hairstreak (1)
Gray Hairstreak (1)
Ceraunus Blue (2)
Gulf Fritillary (43)
Phaon Crescent (4)
Red Admiral (11)
American Lady (14)
Common Buckeye (13)
Carolina Satyr (6)
Monarch (2)
Horace's Duskywing
Neamathla Skipper (1)
Eufala Skipper (1)
Whirlabout (11)
"Seminole" Dotted Skipper (1)

Annutteliga Butterfly Count with Clint Gibson; participants in other parties included Linda Cooper, Lori & Ron Smith, Julie Appleget, John Lampkin, and others. This is Stop #2: Brittle Road from CR-480 south to Trail 26, then return to CR-480. We searched many Sparkleberry bushes but found little until around 1200, when butterflies (especially hairstreaks) became numerous. We returned to CR-480 at 1300 and headed to Stage Coach Cemetery.

Our (tentative) totals for the day are:

Pipevine Swallowtail (2)
Zebra Swallowtail (6)
Spicebush Swallowtail (4)
Southern Dogface (40)
Little Yellow (1)
Barred Yellow (4)
Cloudless Sulphur (11)
Great Purple Hairstreak (2)
White M Hairstreak (1)
"Southern" Oak Hairstreak (23)
Red-banded Hairstreak (1)
Gray Hairstreak (1)
Ceraunus Blue (2)
Gulf Fritillary (43)
Phaon Crescent (4)
Red Admiral (11)
American Lady (14)
Common Buckeye (13)
Carolina Satyr (6)
Monarch (2)
Horace's Duskywing
Neamathla Skipper (1)
Eufala Skipper (1)
Whirlabout (11)
"Seminole" Dotted Skipper (1)

Annutteliga Butterfly Count with Clint Gibson; participants in other parties included Linda Cooper, Lori & Ron Smith, Julie Appleget, John Lampkin, and others. This is Stop #6: a return to the southwest corner of Trail 13 and Trail 20. I left at 1617 and headed home.

Our (tentative) totals for the day are:

Pipevine Swallowtail (2)
Zebra Swallowtail (6)
Spicebush Swallowtail (4)
Southern Dogface (40)
Little Yellow (1)
Barred Yellow (4)
Cloudless Sulphur (11)
Great Purple Hairstreak (2)
White M Hairstreak (1)
"Southern" Oak Hairstreak (23)
Red-banded Hairstreak (1)
Gray Hairstreak (1)
Ceraunus Blue (2)
Gulf Fritillary (43)
Phaon Crescent (4)
Red Admiral (11)
American Lady (14)
Common Buckeye (13)
Carolina Satyr (6)
Monarch (2)
Horace's Duskywing
Neamathla Skipper (1)
Eufala Skipper (1)
Whirlabout (11)
"Seminole" Dotted Skipper (1)

sandhills, oak hammock within rolling, xeric longleaf pine-turkey oak community; shrub to small tree, reddish brown stems, simple alternate leaves, slightly curled, shiny green above, rusty green and fuzzy underneath; big showy fragrant flowers, petals reddish to creamy white