Sighting for May 6, 2012
Steven Rosenthal
Edgewood Preserve (Oak Brush Plains), Deer Park, NY
Suffolk County, NY
- Black Swallowtail 3
- Cabbage White 17
- Clouded Sulphur 2
- Orange Sulphur 1
- Brown Elfin 1 worn
- Red-banded Hairstreak 2 very fresh
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 32
- Spring Azure 1 worn
- Pearl Crescent 6
- Question Mark dozens
- Mourning Cloak 1
- American Lady hundreds
- Painted Lady 2
- Red Admiral thousands
- Monarch 1 FOS
- Zabulon Skipper 2 males
ca 2-5pm, overcast, then sunny. red admirals and ladies and duskywings carpeting the ground everywhere, especially anywhere with dirt/gravel/sand - on trails, and off, almost every step sent dozens scattering into the air, every autumn olive tree had dozens of butterflies nectaring.