Sighting for June 19, 2021
Chris Edwards
Shimek State Forest
Lee County, IA
- Giant Swallowtail 1
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
- Cabbage White 8
- Clouded Sulphur 9
- Orange Sulphur 2
- Harvester 1
- Banded Hairstreak 5
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
- 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
- Great Spangled Fritillary 128
- Silvery Checkerspot 7
- Pearl Crescent 6
- Question Mark 2
- Eastern Comma 9
- Gray Comma 1
- Mourning Cloak 4
- Red Admiral 6
- Red-spotted Purple 11
- Hackberry Emperor 275
- Tawny Emperor 642
- Northern Pearly-eye 3
- Little Wood-Satyr 14
- Silver-spotted Skipper 21
- Northern Cloudywing 11
- Horace's Duskywing 2
- Wild Indigo Duskywing 2
- Peck's Skipper 1
- Tawny-edged Skipper 1
- Little Glassywing 28
- Delaware Skipper 1
- Hobomok Skipper 3
- Zabulon Skipper 4
- Dun Skipper 13
Pepper and Salt Skipper
There is a major outbreak of Hackberry and Tawny Emperors in SE Iowa this year. In addition I saw a rare PEPPER AND SALT SKIPPER at the Croton Unit of Shimek State Forest for the second straight year.