Sighting for May 30, 2020
Steven Rosenthal, Steve Walter
Albany Pine Bush Preserve, Unit 7; Unit 12, Discovery Center
Albany County, NY
- Black Swallowtail 6+
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
- Cabbage White 3
- Clouded Sulphur 2
- American Copper 40+
- Brown Elfin 2
- Frosted Elfin 12+
- Gray Hairstreak 1
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 12+
- Spring Azure 10+
- 'Karner' Melissa Blue 30+
- Pearl Crescent 6
- Common Ringlet 2-3
- Silver-spotted Skipper 1
- Dreamy Duskywing 2
- Juvenal's Duskywing 6+
- Mottled Duskywing 4-5
- Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
- Hobomok Skipper 1
- Common Roadside-Skipper 1
'Karner' Melissa Blue
'Karner' Melissa Blue
'Karner' Melissa Blue
Mottled Duskywing
Common Roadside-Skipper
10:30AM- 5pm, most butterflies were from Unit 7; 5 Karner blues and 1 of each swallowtail were from ‘blue’ trail at the Discovery Center, 1 ringlet was from the entrance to Unit 12.
Photos by SW digit by SR