Coral Gables Count Results
On June 22, 2019, fifteen Miami Blue members and friends took part in the 25th annual Coral Gables butterfly count. This suburban survey covered six butterfly hotspots within fifteen miles of Sunset Drive (SW 72 Street) and Erwin Drive (SW 47 Avenue): Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, the Kampong, the Charles Deering Estate, Bill Bags Cape Florida State Park, Virginia Key, and parts of Coral Gables. Observers counted 45 species and 1,503 butterflies.
Thank you, count participants: Miriam Avello, Jaeson Clayborn, Linda Evans, Liz Golden, D. Green, Amy Grimm, Elias Horna, A. Naccarato, Dennis Olle, Gary Pappas, Nancy Pappas, Becky Smith, Scott Sutherland, J. Volmer, and Leigh Williams.
Count Results
- Polydamas Swallowtail – 23 adults, 6 eggs, 17 caterpillars
- Giant Swallowtail – 9
- Checkered White – 1
- Great Southern White – 8
- Cloudless Sulphur – 18
- Orange-barred Sulphur – 19
- Large Orange Sulphur – 98
- Statira Sulphur – 25
- Pink-spot Sulphur – 13 adults, 2 eggs on Lysiloma subicu
- Lyside Sulphur – 3
- Barred Yellow – 20
- Dina Yellow – 58
- Dainty Sulphur – 134
- Atala – 10 adults, 33 eggs, 9 caterpillars, 16 pupas
- Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak – 8
- Cassius Blue – 123
- Ceraunus Blue – 26
- Gulf Fritillary – 182
- Julia Heliconian – 93
- Zebra Heliconian – 346 adults, 6 caterpillars
- Phaon Crescent – 3
- Red Admiral – 1
- Mangrove Buckeye – 5
- White Peacock – 48
- Ruddy Daggerwing – 1
- Monarch – 34
- Queen – 19
- Soldier – 3
- Mangrove Skipper – 2
- Hammock Skipper – 13
- Long-tailed Skipper – 1
- Horace’s Duskywing – 17
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper – 2
- Three-spotted Skipper – 6
- Least Skipper – 1
- Southern Skipperling – 1
- Fiery Skipper – 21
- Baracoa Skipper – 53
- Whirlabout – 1
- Southern. Broken-Dash – 5
- Monk Skipper – 26
Unidentified Species (sp.)
- Sulphur sp. – 8
- Blue sp. – 7
- Grass skipper sp. – 5
- Monarch sp. – 3