Recent sightings

“Butterfly Goldmine of the Midwest”

Two male and two female Monarchs emerged this morning and visited cert garden #2490. A female Black Swallowtail and Peck Skippers enjoyed the zinnias, lantanas, arizona blanket, columbine, phlox, bee balm, pearl everlasting, yarrow, herbs, sunflowers, coneflowers,and milkweed plants along with many other flowers!

Weather was partly cloudy-cloudy, 82°-75°, 8mph wind gusts-A storm chased us out of the preserve.
Surveyed from 11:00am-1:00pm

R. Spink, S. Rutgers, T. Rutgers, K. Rutgers

This has been a very big year for Cabbage Whites. It has also been a big year for Checkered Whites, which I had not recorded here before. It seems that the Checkered Whites like to perch, mostly on black mustard, whereas the cabbages perch briefly, if at all. When I see a white perching, almost always it’s a Checkered White.

Also Snowberry Clearwing

12:55-2:05, partly sunny, high 80’s, breezy

9am-noon, 85deg, calm

8am-noon, 80 deg, calm

Very humid with downpouring rain,with temps in 80s. Had a female Monarch emerge from chrysalis. Another Monarch visited the certified butterfly garden #2490.

Mostly sunny to increasing cloudy to light sprinkles. The high temp was 100 at 2:30 PM. This area has been ravaged by drought and heat for the past 4 or 5 years. I haven’t had a productive visit at this location since late July 2017. Very little nectar source was seen. No water was seen.