Quick Butterfly Count at DeKorte

 

   Not the best time for a butterfly count — didn't start till 4 p.m. Thursday — but had a Monarch, a clearwing moth and plenty of Red Admirals, Broad-winged Skippers and Cabbage Whites.

   Full list follows. You can download your own DeKorte checklist here: Download DeKorte Butterfly Count Sheet.

DeKorte Park Butterfly Count Sheet

 

Date and Time span: 071510,  1555 hours-1620 hours

 

Temperature: 83 degrees

 

Weather conditions:

__Clear and Sunny

 

Observers:  Jim W.

 

Location

x_Butterfly Garden and environs

x_small meadow near Guardhouse  (Orange Sulphur)

 

1Eastern Tiger Swallowtail


Whites and Sulphurs Family Pieridae

x Cabbage White

1 Orange Sulphur


Brush-footed Butterflies Family Nymphalidae

7 Red Admiral


Milkweed Butterflies Family Danaidae

1 __Monarch


Skippers Family Hesperiidae

6_Silver-spotted Skipper

2Least Skipper

xBroad-winged Skipper

2Skipper (sp.)

 

Clear-winged Moths Family Hemaris

1  Snowberry (dark legs)
Notes: American Lady, 2 Pearl Crescents, Black Swallowtail seen earlier in day.

 

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