Sighting for July 19, 2014
Jim Hengeveld
West and south of Bemidji as part of the Bemidji Butterfly Count
Beltrami County, MN
- Canadian Tiger Swallowtail 1
- Mustard White 39
- Cabbage White 5
- Clouded Sulphur 33
- Orange Sulphur 1
- Pink-edged Sulphur 4
- Coral Hairstreak 4
- Acadian Hairstreak 70
- Edwards' Hairstreak 29
- Banded Hairstreak 6
- Striped Hairstreak 1
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
- 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
- Great Spangled Fritillary 14
- Aphrodite Fritillary 5
- Atlantis Fritillary 4
- Meadow Fritillary 2
- Silvery Checkerspot 11
- Northern Crescent 440
- Eastern Comma 1
- Gray Comma 4
- Compton Tortoiseshell 10
- Mourning Cloak 1
- Red Admiral 4
- White Admiral 9
- Northern Pearly-eye 9
- Eyed Brown 58
- Common Ringlet 1
- Common Wood-Nymph 29
- Monarch 17
- Least Skipper 6
- European Skipper 57
- Peck's Skipper 11
- Tawny-edged Skipper 1
- Long Dash 19
- Northern Broken-Dash 92
- Delaware Skipper 6
- Broad-winged Skipper 15
- Dion Skipper 7
- Two-spotted Skipper 1
- Dun Skipper 210
Banded Hairstreak
Coral Hairstreak
Edwards' Hairstreak
Two-spotted Skipper
Acadian Hairstreak
Striped Hairstreak
We had our first ever day of 5 Satyrium hairstreaks (total of 112 individual hairstreaks). We saw 11 grass skipper species including a 2nd county record for Two-spotted (we found the first on last’s year’s count) - the farthest northwestern sighting of the species in Minnesota. Helping John & Marlene Weber on the Bemidji Butterfly Count. —Jim & Susan Hengeveld