Recent sightings

9-12pm
The Arizona Powdered-Skipper is on Hartweg’s Climbing Milkweed

Checkered White was a summer brood female, which nectared on Italian thistle and yellow
yarrow. This is the first Checkered White ever
in my yard. Tiny, orangish eggs appeared on the underside of leaves on the smaller of two black mustard plants.

John found a White M Hairstreak with abnormal wings in our yard early this morning! It was 75 degrees & sunny.

Around 5:30-6pm

Lots of sun! 57-79 degrees.

Primary purpose was to do another Monarch survey and to look for wild milkweed. Drove/walked about 12 miles on gravel roads without retracing my path. Most of the Monarchs were on the more eastern side of the WMA. The counts are pretty close.

I think this was the FOY Gulf Fritillary here and I saw only one. There will be many more of this attractive species.

1215-1600, 83-88F, Wind W 7-11MPH, Cloud Cover 19-28%

Northern White-Skipper is an occasional visitor in my backyard. Third time this year, finally got a photo.

Beautiful day, 70 degrees. Gorgon Copper is first of year for me.

0830-1100, hiked about 3 miles along sugar sand trails through oak scrub and scattered small sand-bottomed lakes. mainly looking for dragonflies, hardly any nectar sources

65 and partly sunny.

66-73. Partly Sunny.

Trail is clear with some small patches of snow until the clearing (7550ft) where it’s still snow covered and my turn around spot for today.

Sun in am, afternoon rain changing to partly cloudy. Temps 59-86. It was AWESOME to discover 20 hatched white eggs, approx pinhead size. Should also see eggs from Eastern Tail-Blue soon!

Getting off to a slow start to the butterfly season in Philly this year. The weather has not been the best for butterflies with cool temps, rain, and high winds on several days of the last three weekends. Forecast looks to be cool and rainy for the rest of the month. Hopefully we will see some improvement soon.

Sighting for the 1st half of May. Activity remains slow and is running late for many species. Plenty of nectar source available. Of note, despite having host plant for Marine Blue, none seen in my yard so far this year.

Partly cloudy, light breeze, 80 degrees. Hike in the park with the kiddos…unfortunately no time to grab any photos today.

Sunny and 87.

I walked these trails from 10:00AM-noon on this beautiful sunny day with temps in the low 70’s.