Jerry Ball and I went butterflying in the NE of the County today. Our route was Cty Rd 6, Cty Rd 44, Hubble Rd, Cty Rd 46 and Sandy Lake Rd. Butterflies were prolific, especially on Sandy Lake Rd.. In total we saw 42 species, with amazing numbers of hairstreaks.
Tony Bigg
Cabbage White 1 |
Mustard White 1 |
Clouded Sulphur 2 |
Pink-edged Sulphur 6 |
Bog Copper 1 |
Bronze Copper 1 |
Banded Hairstreak 45 |
Hickory Hairstreak 12 |
Edward’s Hairstreak 23 |
Striped Hairstreak 6 |
Acadian Hairstreak 50 |
Coral Hairstreak 2 |
Eastern Tailed Blue 1 |
Summer Azure 11 |
Great Spangled Fritillary 5 |
Aphrodite Fritillary 14 |
Silver-bordered Fritillary 1 |
Pearl Crescent 2 |
Northern Crescent 120 |
Harris’s Checkerspot 1 |
Eastern Comma 1 |
Gray Comma 2 |
Mourning Cloak 4 |
White Admiral 7 |
Viceroy 1 |
Little Wood-Satyr 3 |
Common Wood-Nymph 4 |
Eyed Brown 43 |
European Skipper 11 |
Least Skipper 11 |
Long Dash Skipper 17 |
Peck’s Skipper 5 |
Crossline Skipper 2 |
Northern Broken-Dash 17 |
Little Glassywing 1 |
Dun Skipper 272 |
Two-spotted Skipper 16 |
Hobomok Skipper 3 |
Mulberry Wing 49 |
Broad-winged Skipper 289 |
Dion Skipper 2 |
Delaware Skipper 47 |