Sighting for July 21, 2017
Joanne Langabee
Lauritzen Gardens, Omaha, NE
Douglas County, NE
- 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
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.