Sighting for August 28, 2013
Brett Budach
Konza Prairie Biological Research Station - public trail system
Riley County, KS
- Black Swallowtail 1
- Giant Swallowtail 2
- Cabbage White common
- Orange Sulphur 2
- Cloudless Sulphur 7
- Little Yellow common
- Sleepy Orange common
- Dainty Sulphur common
- American Snout 1
- Variegated Fritillary 5
- Great Spangled Fritillary 4
- Regal Fritillary 6
- Silvery Checkerspot 1
- Phaon Crescent 2
- Pearl Crescent abundant
- Painted Lady 2
- Common Buckeye common
- Viceroy 1
- Goatweed Leafwing 4
- Hackberry Emperor 6
- Northern Pearly-eye abundant
- Common Wood-Nymph abundant
- Monarch 14
- Horace's Duskywing 1
- Mottled Duskywing 1
- Wild Indigo Duskywing 2
- Common Checkered-Skipper 1
- Peck's Skipper 2
- Tawny-edged Skipper abundant
- Sachem abundant
- Delaware Skipper abundant
- Dun Skipper common
- Eufala Skipper 1
The Flint Hills were graced with a cool and wet August this year, allowing plants and Lepidoptera to flourish (relative to last year’s blast-furnace drought). The end of August and much of September look to be hot and dry much like is typical for our region.
I wish I saw more posts on here from the Midwest!!!!