Sighting for July 7, 2013
Steven Rosenthal
Edgewood Preserve, Deer Park
Suffolk County, NY
- Black Swallowtail 2
- Spicebush Swallowtail 12
- Cabbage White 4
- Orange Sulphur 5
- Coral Hairstreak 17
- Banded Hairstreak 21
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 4
- Pearl Crescent 2
- American Lady 1
- Little Wood-Satyr 1
- Common Wood-Nymph 2
- Silver-spotted Skipper 2
- Wild Indigo Duskywing common
- Peck's Skipper 1
hairstreak counts like a football score= good butterflying. observed from 730-1030am, all coral hairstreaks except 1 were on orange milkweed, one small Asclepias plant had nine hairstreaks on it. still very few brushfoots, no monarchs, despite ample milkweed and other blooms.