May not be a beetle. It actually flew away instead of dropping off leaf while I was trying to focus. (Some weeks are just like that, right.)
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 #3: Stage Pond Cemetery and Trail 11B to Stage Pond. After a brief visit to Stage Pond, we left at 1427 and headed north on Trail 13.
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)