Shark Valley Count Results
On July 13, 2019, Miami Blue members and friends braved the heat and humidity of the Everglades for the fourteenth annual Shark Valley Butterfly Count.
Fourteen observers in two parties spent ten total party hours in the field and walked seven miles Thank you, participants: Miriam Avello, Barbara DeWitt, Linda Evans, Liz Golden, Amy Grimm, Kirsten Hines, D. Iglesias, J. Iglesias, M. Iglesias, X. Iglesias, Jim Kushlan, A. Naccarato, Dennis Olle, and Scott Sutherland.
Participants counted 32 species and 395 individual butterflies:
- Black Swallowtail – 2
- Palamedes Swallowtail – 30
- Large Orange Sulphur – 2
- Barred Yellow – 2
- Little Yellow – 2
- Sleepy Orange – 1
- Red-banded Hairstreak – 3
- Cassius Blue – 1
- Gulf Fritillary – 28
- Julia Heliconian – 9
- Zebra Heliconian – 11
- Phaon Crescent – 45
- Pearl Crescent – 5
- Common Buckeye – 31
- Tropical Buckeye – 1
- White Peacock – 161
- Viceroy – 8
- Queen – 16
- Soldier – 1
- Common/White Checkered-Skipper – 1
- Southern Skipperling – 8
- Fiery Skipper – 3
- Sachem – 1
- Delaware Skipper – 3
- Palatka Skipper – 8
- Eufala Skipper – 2
- Ocola Skipper – 4
Unidentified Species (sp.)
- Swallowtail sp. – 2
- Buckeye sp. – 1
- Monarch sp. – 1
- Checkered skipper sp. – 1
- Skipper sp. – 1