Sighting for October 4, 2017

Joanne Langabee

Lauritzen Gardens, Omaha, NE
Douglas County, NE

Did my weekly butterfly count at Lauritzen Gardens today. It was 63 degrees, cloudy most of the day with a wind of 8.1 mph. Still had a great day butterflying seeing 2175 butterflies. Painted Ladies are still in huge abundance.

  • Checkered White 2
  • Cabbage White 155
  • Orange Sulphur 116
  • Cloudless Sulphur 5
  • Little Yellow 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Reakirt's Blue 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 20
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 27
  • Eastern Comma 4
  • Painted Lady 1804
  • Common Buckeye 11
  • Monarch 14
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 5
  • Fiery Skipper 4
  • Sachem 1

Painted Lady

Sachem

Sachem

Gray Hairstreak

Reakirt's Blue

Painted Lady

Reakirt's Blue