Sighting for August 25, 2013
Allan R. Loudell
Along Dutch Neck Road (mostly marshy area) south of the C & D Canal & south of Delaware City
New Castle County, DE
- Black Swallowtail 15
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5, inc. 1 black female
- Spicebush Swallowtail 20
- Cabbage White 3
- Orange Sulphur 15
- Bronze Copper 10
- Gray Hairstreak 1
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
- Pearl Crescent 1
- Eastern Comma 1
- Red Admiral 1
- Red-spotted Purple 13
- Viceroy 2
- Monarch 3
- Silver-spotted Skipper 6
- Least Skipper 6
For a change, the first butterfly I saw on arrival was a Monarch!
But only saw two others. In other years, many more would be observed.
Absence of Common Buckeyes is striking; normally, they’d be all over the road!
2nd brood of Bronze Coppers; of those opening wings, all were males.
Nice emergence of Black Swallowtails here, and in my back yard!