Sighting for August 19, 2017
Mark Adams
Piedmont Store, Clark Rd., Shiflett’s Mill Rd., Jarmans Gap Rd.
Albemarle County, VA
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 40
- Spicebush Swallowtail 25
- Cabbage White 4
- Clouded Sulphur 1
- Orange Sulphur 2
- Cloudless Sulphur 2
- Sleepy Orange 12
- Gray Hairstreak 1
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 12
- 'Summer' Spring Azure 7
- American Snout 1
- Variegated Fritillary 12
- Great Spangled Fritillary 6
- Silvery Checkerspot 5
- Pearl Crescent 10
- Question Mark 1
- Eastern Comma 5
- Common Buckeye 11
- Red-spotted Purple 11
- Northern Pearly-eye 7
- Silver-spotted Skipper 50
- Wild Indigo Duskywing 11
- Common Checkered-Skipper 3
- Clouded Skipper 1
- Least Skipper 2
- Peck's Skipper 1
- Crossline Skipper 10
- Little Glassywing 2
- Sachem 150
- Zabulon Skipper 3
Cloudless Sulphur
Cabbage White
Least Skipper
Red-spotted Purple
Great Spangled Fritillary
Zabulon Skipper
Northern Pearly-eye
Eastern Comma
Eastern Tailed-Blue
Sachem
11:00 – 16:40 EDT. Mostly sunny, 85-91 deg F, wind variable 0-5 mph. A fine field day that yielded my VA 2017-season-high single-day butterfly species count (30), good numbers of butterflies overall, and my best skipper species diversity this season, though skipper numbers were dominated by the Sachem hordes.