Sighting for September 29, 2019

Denis C. Quinn

1 mile west of US route 1 on Mason-Dixon MD/PA line.
Chester County, PA

Many of our butterflies are quite tattered with some skippers just rags and unidentifiable and a few quite fresh looking. One Cloudless Sulphur was roosting in an Oak tree.

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 15
  • Clouded Sulphur 3
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • Variegated Fritillary 3
  • Pearl Crescent 4
  • American Lady 1
  • Painted Lady 3
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 5
  • Red-spotted Purple 5
  • Monarch 5
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 8
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 3
  • Fiery Skipper 14
  • Peck's Skipper 3
  • Sachem 8

Black Swallowtail

Common Buckeye

Cloudless Sulphur

Silver-spotted Skipper

Painted Lady

Variegated Fritillary

Fiery Skipper

Pearl Crescent