I spent a long weekend in southern Florida bird watching but managed to get in a couple hours for butterflies. Although it’s not the best time of year for diversity there are species that do fly year round (Don’t we wish). All of these were seen at Flamingo, FL in Everglages National Park which hosts an outstanding variety of mammals, reptiles, birds and insects. New state butterflies like Great Southern White (You have to love those turquoise antennal clubs), Ceraunus Blue, Gulf Fritillary and Long-tailed Skipper where not hard to find as this was my first sortie for leps in Florida. I also added four lifers: Barred Yellow, Eastern Pygmy-Blue, Mangrove Buckeye and Monk Skipper. I’m sure I’ll be back during peak season sometime in the future. Temperatures in the 70’s and lower 80’s were soooo hard to take(:>
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