Sighting for June 30, 2020
Andy Birkey
Carlos Avery Wildlife Refuge
Anoka County, MN
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
- Clouded Sulphur common
- Orange Sulphur common
- Bronze Copper 3
- Acadian Hairstreak common
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
- 'Summer' Spring Azure common
- Great Spangled Fritillary 50+
- Silver-bordered Fritillary 2
- Pearl Crescent 2
- Northern Crescent common
- Baltimore Checkerspot 50+
- Eastern Comma 1
- Mourning Cloak 2
- Red Admiral 2
- Common Buckeye 1
- Red-spotted Admiral 2
- White Admiral 1
- Viceroy 4
- Hackberry Emperor 2
- Eyed Brown 15
- Little Wood-Satyr 1
- Monarch 4
- Silver-spotted Skipper 11
- Least Skipper 5
- Long Dash 25+
- Northern Broken-Dash 5
- Delaware Skipper common
- Mulberry Wing common
- Broad-winged Skipper common
- Dion Skipper common
- Black Dash 1
- Dun Skipper common
Northern Broken-Dash
Dion Skipper
Northern Broken-Dash
Spent the afternoon searching for Two-Spotted Skipper in area where a photo record exists from 2009 (the most recent sighting I know of for MN). No luck. But, saw a huge diversity of species so a good day nonetheless