Sighting for July 23, 2017
Chris Herz
Longwood Gardens, meadow only, Kennett Square
Chester County, PA
- Black Swallowtail 1
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 47
- Spicebush Swallowtail 9
- Cabbage White 9
- Clouded Sulphur 3
- Orange Sulphur 6
- Cloudless Sulphur 1
- Sleepy Orange 2
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
- 'Summer' Spring Azure 3
- American Snout 1
- Variegated Fritillary 3
- Great Spangled Fritillary 3
- American Lady 1
- Painted Lady 1
- Red Admiral 2
- Common Buckeye 4
- Red-spotted Purple 1
- Monarch 6
- Silver-spotted Skipper 11
- Wild Indigo Duskywing 3
- Least Skipper 3
- Sachem 8
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
American Snout
Sleepy Orange
Sleepy Orange
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Partly cloudy for part of the afternoon but very humid—into the 90s. Cloudless sulphur laying eggs on partridge pea, Sleepy orange laying eggs on senna, black swallowtail laying eggs on queen anne’s lace, red spotted purple laying eggs on cherry, American lady laying eggs on everlasting. Of the 47 Tigers, 9 were dark form females.