Sighting for July 29, 2013
Rick Borchelt
Plummer House butterfly garden, Paris N. Glendening Preserve
Anne Arundel County, MD
- Zebra Swallowtail 3
- Black Swallowtail common
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail common
- Spicebush Swallowtail common
- Cabbage White common
- Orange Sulphur 1
- Cloudless Sulphur 1
- Sleepy Orange 5
- Gray Hairstreak 5
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
- 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
- American Snout 1
- Variegated Fritillary 3
- Pearl Crescent 6
- Common Buckeye 1
- Silver-spotted Skipper common
- Southern Cloudywing 4
- Horace's Duskywing 1
- Least Skipper 3
- Peck's Skipper common
- Tawny-edged Skipper common
- Crossline Skipper common
- Southern Broken-Dash 1
- Little Glassywing 3
- Sachem 7
- Zabulon Skipper 1
- Dun Skipper common
Gray Hairstreak
Sleepy Orange
American Snout
Southern Cloudywing
Three hours in midafternoon at this remarkably productive butterfly garden. Sunny, light breeze, 88F. A number of nectar plants; most heavily used were zinnia, lantana, swamp milkweed and Verbena bonariensis. Solo trip.