Sighting for August 7, 2014
Brant Reif
Deerfield Trail near Silver City, Black Hills National Forest
Pennington County, SD
- Cabbage White 2
- Orange Sulphur 1
- Melissa Blue abundant
- Variegated Fritillary 5
- Aphrodite Fritillary 2
- Edwards' Fritillary 3
- Atlantis Fritillary 8
- Pearl Crescent abundant
- Weidemeyer's Admiral 1
- Silver-spotted Skipper 4
New Sighting
One tiger swallowtail flew past, but as both the Canadian and Western fly in the area I couldn’t identify it correctly.
Atlantis Fritillary was the unsilvered “Hesperis” form as I’ve also found the silvered “Atlantis” form flying in the same area in the past.