Sighting for September 2, 2012
Rick Borchelt
Huntley Meadows Park
Fairfax County, VA
- Black Swallowtail 1
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 6
- Spicebush Swallowtail 2
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
- Great Spangled Fritillary 2
- Pearl Crescent 4
- Painted Lady 2
- Red Admiral 1
- Common Buckeye 6
- Red-spotted Purple 2
- Viceroy 3
- Appalachian Brown 1
- Common Wood-Nymph 1
- Monarch common
- Silver-spotted Skipper 1
- Least Skipper common
- Sachem 1
- Dion Skipper 4
- Ocola Skipper 1
Very warm, mostly cloudy with passing showers and intervals of sunshine. All species seen along the boardwalk over the marsh or within a few hundred feet of the boardwalk. In the field from 1400 hours to 1730 hours. Nectar sources included swamp milkweed, Mikania, jewelweed, ironweed, thistle and Joe-pye weed.