Sighting for July 21, 2017

Joanne Langabee

Lauritzen Gardens, Omaha, NE
Douglas County, NE

It was a hot humid day with average temperature of 86 degrees and humidity of 61%. Holly and I were out for 4 hours starting at 9 and saw over 300 butterflies. We saw our first cloudless Sulphur of the year.

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Checkered White 1
  • Cabbage White 73
  • Clouded Sulphur 4
  • Orange Sulphur 110
  • Cloudless Sulphur 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 54
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 2
  • Variegated Fritillary 2
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Eastern Comma 3
  • Painted Lady 8
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 4
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Hackberry Emperor 4
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 39
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Peck's Skipper 2
  • Sachem 1

'Summer' Spring Azure

Red-spotted Purple

Eastern Comma

Cabbage White

Red-spotted Purple

Painted Lady

Peck's Skipper

Hackberry Emperor

Wild Indigo Duskywing

Painted Lady

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Cabbage White

Eastern Tailed-Blue