I had a great first day of the season today on Castor Plunge Road in the Rapides Unit of KNF. 5 Pipevine ST 1 E Tiger ST 35+ Falcate OT 7 Cloudless Suls 4 Sleepy Or 2 Harvester (at mud) 14 Frosted Elfins 4 Spring Azures 1 Pearl Cres 2 Am Lady 1 Question Mark 1 E Comma 12 Goatweed LW 6 duskywings (Horace’s I think. Still working on id.) Craig Marks Sent from Samsung tablet -------- Original message -------- From: jftrahan <jftrahan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 03/14/2015 4:36 PM (GMT-06:00) To: LA Leps <louisianaleps@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [louisianaleps] Kisatchie Butterflies The weather in Shreveport has been dreadful. If it's not freezing, it's raining and/or overcast. We haven't seen the sun in almost a month. You can imagine what that does for butterflies. Last week, I checked for butterflies at Eddie Jones Park and saw a total of three. Not species, but butterflies. This morning Charlie Lyon, Jean Trahan and I went to Cotile Lake in Rapides Parish northwest of Alexandria to see White-winged Scoters that were reported there. We did find the Scoters and visited Kisatchie NF in Natchitoches Parish on the way back. What made it really nice was that the sun started to shine and the temperature soared to 76 degrees. That lifted our spirits. Great for butterflies. We found 11 species which included two new ones for Charlie--Henry's Elfin and Juvenal's Duskywing. The complete list is below. On the way back to Shreveport, the sky became overcast, the temperature fell to 61 degrees, and we drove through drizzle to get home. 1 Pipevine Swallowtail 1 Zebra Swallowtail 1 Orange Sulphur 3 Cloudless Sulphur 1 Sleepy Orange 1 Henry's Elfin 7 American Snout 1 Zebra 1 Question Mark 5 Goatweed Leafwing 2 Juvenal's Duskywing