Sighting for September 7, 2014
Allan R. Loudell
Along Dutch Neck Road & path extending along C & D Canal near red barn, & south of Delaware City
New Castle County, DE
- Black Swallowtail 2
- Cabbage White 1
- Orange Sulphur 1
- Gray Hairstreak 4
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 9
- Pearl Crescent 16
- Common Buckeye 2
- Viceroy 1
- Silver-spotted Skipper 5
- Least Skipper 25+
- Peck's Skipper 1
- Sachem 7
- Zabulon Skipper 3
- Broad-winged Skipper 25+
One-and-a-half hour walk, mid-afternoon.
One week and one violent thunderstorm later, Bronze Coppers from last week disappeared (although they sometimes “hide” in the mid-afternoon)… Eastern Tiger & Spicebush Swallowtails also gone, and not a single Monarch.