Sighting for July 27, 2012
Henry Kindervatter
Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve
Bucks County, PA
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5
- Spicebush Swallowtail 4
- Cabbage White 10
- Clouded Sulphur 1
- Orange Sulphur 2
- Cloudless Sulphur 1
- Monarch 7
- Silver-spotted Skipper 3
- Least Skipper 5
- Peck's Skipper 6
- Tawny-edged Skipper 7
- Zabulon Skipper 2
Spicebush Swallowtail
I was looking for recently-reported Sleepy orange butterflies, but did not find them. I did see a Cloudless sulfur, however. It was flying back and forth across the parking area for about 2 hours. The butterfly field has perked up with recent rains after a couple of weeks of drought. Butterfly numbers were down for this time of year, but there was decent diversity of species in my 2 hours there.