Sighting for September 7, 2012
David L. Amadio
Great Dismal Swamp NWR, including both Washington ditch & Jericho ditch
Suffolk city, VA
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 11
- Spicebush Swallowtail 2
- Palamedes Swallowtail 107
- Orange Sulphur 3
- Cloudless Sulphur 91
- Little Yellow 9
- Sleepy Orange 3
- Gray Hairstreak 9
- Red-banded Hairstreak 3
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 19
- 'Summer' Spring Azure 36
- Variegated Fritillary 6
- Pearl Crescent 52
- Question Mark 8
- Eastern Comma 1
- American Lady 3
- Painted Lady 19
- Red Admiral 3
- Common Buckeye 18
- Red-spotted Purple 33
- Viceroy 17
- Southern Pearly-eye 40
- Creole Pearly-eye 9
- Carolina Satyr 12
- Silver-spotted Skipper 95
- Long-tailed Skipper 3
- Horace's Duskywing 1
- Common Checkered-Skipper 10
- Common Sootywing 3
- Clouded Skipper 10
- Least Skipper 28
- Fiery Skipper 15
- Sachem 1
- Dun Skipper 3
- Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper 8
- Ocola Skipper 1
Observations made between 11:00 a.m. & 5:45 p.m. Also, the Ocola skipper was seen off of White Marsh Rd. near Washington ditch.