Sighting for July 12, 2013
John Lampkin
Lily Pond, Harriman St. Park
Rockland County, NY
- Black Swallowtail 1
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 6
- Spicebush Swallowtail 1
- Cabbage White 1
- Orange Sulphur 2
- American Copper 11
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
- 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
- Great Spangled Fritillary 2
- Pearl Crescent 19
- Mourning Cloak 2
- Red-spotted Purple 1
- Appalachian Brown 57
- Little Wood-Satyr 33
- Monarch 1
- Silver-spotted Skipper 5
- Least Skipper 4
- European Skipper 2
- Tawny-edged Skipper 1
- Crossline Skipper 2
- Northern Broken-Dash 25
- Little Glassywing 150+
- Delaware Skipper 42
- Mulberry Wing 9
- Broad-winged Skipper 4
- Black Dash 7
- Dun Skipper 150+
Weekly survey, with Alan Wells and Vince Plogar
78-80, humid, 100% overcast
This time in July can be explosive here. Duns and Little Glassywings were too abundant to count. In a mile-long roadside strip, many milkweed flower heads carried ten or more skippers.