Sighting for June 28, 2013
Conrad Vispo
Rhinebeck, Thompson-Mazarella Town Park
Dutchess County, NY
- Black Swallowtail
- Cabbage White abundant
- Clouded Sulphur common
- Orange Sulphur
- Hickory Hairstreak
- Eastern Tailed-Blue
- Great Spangled Fritillary common
- Meadow Fritillary abundant
- American Lady
- Hackberry Emperor
- Silver-spotted Skipper
- Least Skipper
- Peck's Skipper
- Tawny-edged Skipper
- Hobomok Skipper
Meadow Fritillary
Old crop field adjacent to active field crops with standard old field flowers such as the likes of trefoil, white clover, knapweed, and fleabane. (Also numerous 17-year cicadas.) Abundances presented here are general for whole park, but specific counts were done in the different fields, and Meadow Frits exceeded 300 during one of the 40 min counts. See picture.