Sighting for June 29, 2014
Harry Zirlin
Ward Pound Ridge
Westchester County, NY
- Cabbage White 5
- Clouded Sulphur 5
- Banded Hairstreak 4
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 7
- 'Summer' Spring Azure 9
- Great Spangled Fritillary 10
- Baltimore Checkerspot 2
- Eastern Comma 1
- Red Admiral 2
- Northern Pearly-eye 1
- Appalachian Brown 5
- Little Wood-Satyr 4
- Common Wood-Nymph 4
- Silver-spotted Skipper 4
- Southern Cloudywing 4
- Northern Cloudywing 1
- Least Skipper 2
- European Skipper 20
- Peck's Skipper 6
- Little Glassywing 12
- Delaware Skipper 1
- Hobomok Skipper 3
Baltimore Checkerspots were both females. One freshly eclosed and drying her wings. Other watchers had 4 the day before. All (theirs and mine) in same spot where I saw the caterpillars. Eastern Comma also freshly emerged (dark hindwing summer form). Banded Hairstreaks were males chasing each other in a sunlit glade. None seen nectaring. All butterflies observed in passing except for the Baltimores which I went out of my way to see. Otherwise I was looking for moth caterpillars (Catocala badia) or beetles…