Sighting for September 13, 2019
Robert Bell
Crossroads UMC prairie planting, Washington
Tazewell County, IL
- Black Swallowtail 1
- Cabbage White abundant
- Orange Sulphur 5
- Cloudless Sulphur 7
- Little Yellow superabundant
- Dainty Sulphur 1
- Eastern Tailed-Blue common
- Variegated Fritillary 1
- Pearl Crescent common
- Painted Lady abundant
- Common Buckeye abundant
- Viceroy 1
- Monarch superabundant
- Silver-spotted Skipper common
- Wild Indigo Duskywing 8
- Fiery Skipper abundant
- Peck's Skipper abundant
I came upon several hundred monarchs sheltering in two small groves of black locust trees on the north side of the prairie. They were gradually departing into a 20 mph, gusty wind.
74 degrees, partly cloudy.