Sighting for June 16, 2020

Jeff Gesell

Ballas Park
Northampton County, PA

First location of the day…sunny, breezy, upper 70s. All of the Black Swallowtails were in the sunshine on the hilltop in the open prairie…mostly males. Spicebush and Eastern Tiger Swallowtails were flying along the wooded perimeter.

  • Black Swallowtail 8
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White common
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 3
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 2
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 3
  • Zabulon Skipper common

Black Swallowtail

Least Skipper