Sighting for July 5, 2020

Marilyn Metzger Hessinger

Grand Sanitation Environmental Center Pen Argyl
Northampton County, PA

temp 91, humid and mostly sunny, light breeze, mixed meadows with little coppers found on mowed paths. In general, overall sightings of species and numbers for me down. Expected to see Sleepy Orange by now. Very dry conditions and we had 3 nights of temps in upper 20s in May.

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 4
  • Clouded Sulphur 10
  • American Copper 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 4
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 3
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Little Glassywing 1

American Copper