Sighting for August 27, 2017
Andy Birkey
Bike trails along I-29 just south of US 14
Brookings County, SD
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
- Checkered White 1
- Cabbage White common
- Clouded Sulphur common
- Orange Sulphur common
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
- Melissa Blue 3
- Meadow Fritillary 8
- Pearl Crescent 5
- Painted Lady superabundant
- Monarch common
- Least Skipper 1
- Peck's Skipper 1
- Sachem 6
Meadow Fritillary
Pearl Crescent
Melissa Blue
8:30am to 10:30am. Sunny lower 70s. The trails ran along some wetlands on one side and alfalfa fields on the other. Painted Ladies were everywhere. Melissa Blue is a first for me.