Sighting for July 9, 2020
Brant Reif
Bear Lodge Mountain, Black Hills National Forest
Crook County, WY
- Phoebus Parnassian 1
- Checkered White
- Western White
- Clouded Sulphur
- Orange Sulphur
- Dainty Sulphur
- Western Tailed-Blue
- Boisduval's Blue
- Arctic Blue 1
- Variegated Fritillary
- Atlantis Fritillary
- Mormon Fritillary
- Gorgone Checkerspot
- Milbert's Tortoiseshell
- Painted Lady
- Weidemeyer's Admiral
Phoebus Parnassian
Atlantis Fritillary
Gorgone Checkerspot
Atlantis Fritillary
My son and I surveyed from 10-12. We started at the fire lookout and walked down to the tree line and back. We also saw one unidentified swallowtail and one unidentified duskywing. The Atlantis Fritillary was the unsilvered Hesperis form. The silvered form also flies in the Black Hills National Forest, but is much more restricted to wet areas.