Sighting for September 22, 2012

Allan R. Loudell

Dutch Neck Road (and adjoining dirt road / path) south of the C & D Canal south of Delaware City
New Castle County, DE

Black Swallowtail on dead fish disposed by fisherman; Eastern Tailed-Blues included 1 mating pair

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1 black form female
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Orange Sulphur 5
  • Cloudless Sulphur 3
  • Bronze Copper 5
  • Gray Hairstreak 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 35+
  • Silvery Checkerspot 1
  • Pearl Crescent 15
  • Common Buckeye 10
  • Red-spotted Purple 2
  • Viceroy 6
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 5
  • Horace's Duskywing 3
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1
  • Fiery Skipper 18
  • Peck's Skipper 5
  • Sachem 7
  • Broad-winged Skipper 3
  • Dun Skipper 1
  • Ocola Skipper 1