Butterfly Day: The Full List

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We had an amazing 21 species of butterflies yesterday at Butterfly Day.

We are posting the full list here, and will post photos from the day all this week — so please feel free to share yours.

Note: If you got a photo of the rare Meadow Fritillary or Horace's Duskywing seen briefly yesterday, please share!

Full list follows.


DeKorte Park
July 22, 2012, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
21 Species/dozens of observers

1. Monarch
2. Painted Lady
3. Cabbage White
4. Red Admiral
5. Question Mark
6. Broad-winged Skipper
7. Pearl Crescent
8. Common Buckeye
9. Silver-spotted Skipper
10. Peck's Skipper
11. Zabulon Skipper
12. Sachem Skipper
13. Horace's Duskywing
14. American Lady
15. Orange Sulphur
16. Least Skipper
17. Clouded Sulphur
18. Black Swallowtail
19. Eastern Tailed-Blue
20. Meadow Fritillary
21. Fiery Skipper

 

One thought on “Butterfly Day: The Full List

  1. Outlawteddy

    Congrats on your new place! Are you ever efficient, mnnigaag to create socks while moving. (I knit socks too, so haven’t been entering your contest, but did a have a blissful week to myself this Feb. while my boyfriend went to Mexico.)

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