A few folks were wondering what was our best Butterfly Day in terms of total number of species.
The answer: 2012, with 21 species.
Here are the links to the full lists for all five years:
Composite five-year list follows. Guess how many species total!
Five-year Butterfly Day Composite List, DeKorte Park
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
22. Summer Azure
23. Red-spotted Purple
24. Wild Indigo Duskywing
25. Viceroy
26. Eastern Comma
27. American Snout
28. Clouded Sulphur
29. Gray Hairstreak
Note: On our 2009 Butterfly Walk, the precursor to Butterfly Day, we has a Common Sootywing, but have not had one on Butterfly Day itself.