Sighting for August 18, 2016
Brant Reif
Chichaqua Bottoms Greenbelt
Polk County, IA
- Giant Swallowtail 1
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
- Orange Sulphur common
- Little Yellow common
- Bronze Copper 15
- Eastern Tailed-Blue common
- Meadow Fritillary common
- Pearl Crescent common
- Eastern Comma 1
- Red Admiral 4
- Common Buckeye common
- Red-spotted Purple 1
- Viceroy 5
- Northern Pearly-eye 1
- Monarch common
- Silver-spotted Skipper 1
- Common Checkered-Skipper 1
Bronze Copper
Common Buckeye
Meadow Fritillary
Meadow Fritillary
Little Yellow
Monarch
Orange Sulphur
Northern Pearly-eye
Viceroy
Pearl Crescent
Viceroy
Eastern Tailed-Blue
Bronze Copper
My boys and I went on two separate walks through the park hitting the prairie before lunch and the woodland/wetland trail after lunch. The temperature approached 90 after lunch, but the lack of a stiff breeze allowed us to spot many more butterflies here than I remember in the past. This has become an annual trip for me and my boys on the last day of our summer break.