Sighting for September 3, 2013
Brett Budach
KSU Gardens
Riley County, KS
- Black Swallowtail 1
- Cabbage White common
- Clouded Sulphur 2
- Cloudless Sulphur 3
- Little Yellow 1
- Dainty Sulphur 1
- Gray Hairstreak 2
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 4
- Gulf Fritillary 6
- Variegated Fritillary 2
- Phaon Crescent 1
- Pearl Crescent 5
- Painted Lady 1
- Common Buckeye 1
- Monarch 2
- Silver-spotted Skipper 2
- Horace's Duskywing 1
- Wild Indigo Duskywing 2
- Fiery Skipper 4
- Peck's Skipper 1
- Tawny-edged Skipper abundant
- Sachem abundant
- Delaware Skipper 2
- Dun Skipper common
- Nysa Roadside-Skipper 1
- Eufala Skipper 1
Spent some time between classes observing pollinators in the KSU Gardens. I will note that there is an established breeding population of Gulf Fritillaries in the gardens this year, thanks to the huge fence of Passiflora incarnata on the NW side of the gardens parking lot.