Sighting for August 26, 2012
Brett Budach
Konza Prairie "nature trail" - entire loop
Riley County, KS
- Black Swallowtail 2
- Giant Swallowtail 4
- Cabbage White 1
- Orange Sulphur 1
- Cloudless Sulphur 2
- Little Yellow 5
- Sleepy Orange 15
- Dainty Sulphur superabundant
- Gray Hairstreak superabundant
- Eastern Tailed-Blue superabundant
- American Snout 2
- Variegated Fritillary abundant
- Great Spangled Fritillary 4
- Regal Fritillary common
- Pearl Crescent 4
- Eastern Comma 1
- Mourning Cloak 1
- American Lady 1
- Painted Lady abundant
- Red Admiral 2
- Common Buckeye 3
- Viceroy 1
- Hackberry Emperor 1
- Common Wood-Nymph superabundant
- Monarch 2
- Silver-spotted Skipper 4
- Southern Cloudywing 7
- Mottled Duskywing 3
- Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
- Common Checkered-Skipper 2
- Fiery Skipper 3
- Peck's Skipper 1
- Tawny-edged Skipper abundant
- Sachem abundant
- Delaware Skipper 2
- Dun Skipper 2
- Nysa Roadside-Skipper 3
- Common Roadside-Skipper 11
- Eufala Skipper 12
Great Spangled Fritillary
Black Swallowtail
Mottled Duskywing
Eufala Skipper
Delaware Skipper
Eastern Tailed-Blue
Common Roadside-Skipper
Southern Cloudywing
Regal Fritillary
Nysa Roadside-Skipper
I walked the entire “nature trail” open to the public on the Konza Prairie. This was just one day after the first beneficial rain in months, and the butterfly numbers and diversity were decent.