Sighting for May 23, 2023

Joanne Langabee

Homestead National Park
Gage County, NE

Did second survey of area. Not near the number of butterflies as last month probably due to early butterflies have died and waiting for adults to eclose. I was out for 2 hours, around 75 degrees and sunny.

  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 11
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Gorgone Checkerspot 1
  • Pearl Crescent 5
  • American Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 11
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Common Sootywing 5
  • Zabulon Skipper 4

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Red Admiral

American Lady

Monarch

Silver-spotted Skipper

Variegated Fritillary

Orange Sulphur

Gorgone Checkerspot

Common Sootywing

Zabulon Skipper

Zabulon Skipper