Sighting for August 3, 2012
Jean Gutsmuth, Chris Herz, Dave Amadio
Eastern Neck NWR
Kent County, MD
- Zebra Swallowtail 34
- Black Swallowtail 1
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 9
- Spicebush Swallowtail 26
- Cabbage White 4
- Orange Sulphur 12
- Cloudless Sulphur 9
- Little Yellow 7
- Gray Hairstreak 7
- Red-banded Hairstreak 5
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 30
- 'Summer' Spring Azure 8
- American Snout 6
- Variegated Fritillary 7
- Pearl Crescent 38
- Question Mark 7
- Eastern Comma 1
- Painted Lady 4
- Red Admiral 8
- Common Buckeye 7
- Red-spotted Purple 13
- Viceroy 3
- Hackberry Emperor 10
- Monarch 7
- Silver-spotted Skipper 25
- Horace's Duskywing 1
- Wild Indigo Duskywing 3
- Common Sootywing 1
- Swarthy Skipper 2
- Least Skipper 7
- Fiery Skipper 2
- Southern Broken-Dash 3
- Little Glassywing 7
- Sachem 2
- Zabulon Skipper 17
- Broad-winged Skipper 1
- Dun Skipper 3
Observations made throughout the refuge between 9:30 a.m & 3:20 p.m. E.Tiger Swallowtails include 1 dark form female. Spicebush Swallowtails included 1 cat on Sassafrass. We also observed a female Zabulon Skipper laying eggs on crabgrass.