Sighting for July 15, 2022
Jeff Gesell
State Gamelands 127
Monroe County, PA
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail abundant
- Spicebush Swallowtail 2
- Cabbage White 2
- Orange Sulphur 1
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 4
- 'Summer' Spring Azure 3
- Great Spangled Fritillary common
- Aphrodite Fritillary 1
- Pearl Crescent abundant
- Red-spotted Purple 1
- Northern Pearly-eye 1
- Monarch 12
- Silver-spotted Skipper 1
- Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
- European Skipper 7
- Crossline Skipper 4
- Long Dash 1
- Northern Broken-Dash common
- Little Glassywing 5
- Delaware Skipper 12
- Mulberry Wing 1
- Dion Skipper 5
- Black Dash 4
- Dun Skipper abundant
Pearl Crescent
Dun Skipper
'Summer' Spring Azure
European Skipper
Northern Pearly-eye
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Orange Sulphur
Black Dash
Dion Skipper
Mulberry Wing
Mulberry Wing
Great Spangled Fritillary
Aphrodite Fritillary
Northern Broken-Dash
Monarch
Delaware Skipper
Cloudy, light breeze at times, mid-70s. Always a great location to find a large number of grass skipper varieties - particularly marsh/wetland species that are otherwise hard to find. Overall skipper numbers down this year…not sure if it is due to the dry conditions recently or today’s cloud cover? Still a good number of different species…happy to find a handful of Dion Skippers present along with a single Mulberry Wing. A good number of the Tiger Swallowtails appeared to be Eastern x Canadian hybrids/intergrades - I labeled them all as Eastern in the tally.