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With Don Fraser; a visit to see what was around -- the trip quickly turned into a contest to see how many yucca moths we could find. We checked every Common Yucca that we found; some were not yet blooming, but we ended up with 17 blooming yuccas out of 17 with yucca moths! It was amazing! By my count, I photographed at least 49 moths! The weather at the start (1030) was overcast with brief, light rain and 75 degrees. By the end (1453), it was sunny, and about 90 degrees.

Photographs taken with my cell phone (Samsung Galaxy A52) have precise locations. Photographs taken with my camera (Panasonic Lumix FZ80) have a generic location. We iNatted five locations -- in addition to the sites around every blooming Common Yucca that we found -- with the most time at any single site spent at the heliport near Bald Eagle Nest Sink near the southern end of South Road. We were north of Rattlesnake Camp Road only for our final ~75 minutes, when we drove Gopher Road adjacent to US-19, north to the Hernando Sportsmen's Club gate.

With Don Fraser; iNatting the Forest before a nocturnal moth survey at Tiger Creek Preserve. We were hoping for some Lake Wales Ridge endemic plants like Nolina, Zizyphus, and Dicerandra, but we found none of those. We left at 1503 and headed north, stopping along the way to iNat.

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)

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A solo visit while heading home from a job in the Trilby area. I stopped when I saw all the phlox; all my sightings are from the north side of Trilby Road. There were several sulphurs and skippers of multiple species, and they were continuously fluttering around. To the best I could, I have tried to separate each record as a different individual. I headed home at 1506.

A solo visit while heading home from a job in the Trilby area. I stopped when I saw all the phlox; all my sightings are from the north side of Trilby Road. There were several sulphurs and skippers of multiple species, and they were continuously fluttering around. To the best I could, I have tried to separate each record as a different individual. I headed home at 1506.

A solo visit while heading home from a job in the Trilby area. I stopped when I saw all the phlox; all my sightings are from the north side of Trilby Road. There were several sulphurs and skippers of multiple species, and they were continuously fluttering around. To the best I could, I have tried to separate each record as a different individual. I headed home at 1506.

A solo visit while heading home from a job in the Trilby area. I stopped when I saw all the phlox; all my sightings are from the north side of Trilby Road. There were several sulphurs and skippers of multiple species, and they were continuously fluttering around. To the best I could, I have tried to separate each record as a different individual. I headed home at 1506.

A solo visit while heading home from a job in the Trilby area. I stopped when I saw all the phlox; all my sightings are from the north side of Trilby Road. There were several sulphurs and skippers of multiple species, and they were continuously fluttering around. To the best I could, I have tried to separate each record as a different individual. I headed home at 1506.

A solo visit while heading home from a job in the Trilby area. I stopped when I saw all the phlox; all my sightings are from the north side of Trilby Road. There were several sulphurs and skippers of multiple species, and they were continuously fluttering around. To the best I could, I have tried to separate each record as a different individual. I headed home at 1506.

A solo visit while heading home from a job in the Trilby area. I stopped when I saw all the phlox; all my sightings are from the north side of Trilby Road. There were several sulphurs and skippers of multiple species, and they were continuously fluttering around. To the best I could, I have tried to separate each record as a different individual. I headed home at 1506.

A solo visit while heading home from a job in the Trilby area. I stopped when I saw all the phlox; all my sightings are from the north side of Trilby Road. There were several sulphurs and skippers of multiple species, and they were continuously fluttering around. To the best I could, I have tried to separate each record as a different individual. I headed home at 1506.

A solo visit while heading home from a job in the Trilby area. I stopped when I saw all the phlox; all my sightings are from the north side of Trilby Road. There were several sulphurs and skippers of multiple species, and they were continuously fluttering around. To the best I could, I have tried to separate each record as a different individual. I headed home at 1506.