Sighting for September 9, 2012
Allan R. Loudell
Dutch Neck Road south of the C & D Canal south of Delaware City
New Castle County, DE
- Black Swallowtail 13
- Spicebush Swallowtail 4
- Clouded Sulphur 1
- Orange Sulphur 3
- Cloudless Sulphur 2
- Bronze Copper 5 males
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 12
- Pearl Crescent 3
- Painted Lady 9
- Common Buckeye 18
- Red-spotted Purple 10
- Viceroy 2
- Silver-spotted Skipper 22
- Horace's Duskywing 6
- Least Skipper 1
- Sachem 6
- Broad-winged Skipper 7
Between 10–11:30 A.M.; Male Bronze Coppers still out; Eastern Tailed-Blues and Horace’s Duskywings confined to path extending from road along the canal; surprisingly no Monarchs!