Sighting for September 21, 2012
Jean Gutsmuth, Chris Herz, & David Amadio
Dorchester County roadsides & Blackwater NWR
Dorchester County, MD
- Black Swallowtail 2
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
- Spicebush Swallowtail 1
- Cabbage White 3
- Clouded Sulphur 2
- Orange Sulphur 42
- Cloudless Sulphur 17
- Little Yellow 6
- Sleepy Orange 1
- Great Purple Hairstreak 2
- Gray Hairstreak 5
- Red-banded Hairstreak 4
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 14
- 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
- Variegated Fritillary 2
- Pearl Crescent 50
- Question Mark 1
- Mourning Cloak 2
- American Lady 4
- Painted Lady 6
- Red Admiral 3
- Common Buckeye 35
- Red-spotted Purple 1
- Viceroy 2
- Common Wood-Nymph 5
- Monarch 1
- Silver-spotted Skipper 15
- Horace's Duskywing 1
- Least Skipper 26
- Fiery Skipper 5
- Sachem 2
- Zabulon Skipper 1
- Broad-winged Skipper 1
Blackwater NWR obs. included the wildlife drive & Tubman Trail. The nectar sources, primarily goldenrod has been mowed all the way to water’ edge along the wildlife drive. No sign of Bronze Coppers which have been fairly common here in the past.