Sighting for May 19, 2013

Brett Budach

Hopewell Prairie - Private
Miami County, KS

Stiff south breeze, low 80’s, humid, alternating mid-level overcast and partly cloudy conditions. Plants are about 2-3 weeks behind where they should be this time of year.

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Checkered White 1
  • Clouded Sulphur common
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue abundant
  • Spring Azure 2
  • Variegated Fritillary 3
  • Pearl Crescent common
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Common Buckeye 4
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper common
  • Common Sootywing 1
  • Common Roadside-Skipper 1

Red-banded Hairstreak

Common Checkered-Skipper

Common Roadside-Skipper

Mourning Cloak