Bent of the River butterflies

[jhimmel at connix.com]

Good morning CT lepsters - Six of us went to Bent of the River in Southbury on a 
CBA trip - saw 20 spp of butterflies. 

These are them.. 

(1) Black Swallowtail
(5+) Tiger Swallowtail
(4+) Cabbage White
(C)Clouded Sulphur
(C)Orange Sulphur
(5+)American Coppers
(1)Coral Hairstreak
(3+)Eastern Tailed Blue
(Very common)Great Spangled Fritillary
(1) Variegated Fritillary (a CT vagrant, seen on this trip before)
(4)Pearl Crescent
(1)Eastern Comma (on Stinging Nettle)
(2)Little Wood Satyr, 
(Very common) Common Wood Nymph
(5) Monarch
(9+) Silver-spotted Skipper
(Very common) Northern Broken Dash
(2) Little Glassywing
(2) Deleware Skipper
(6+) Dun Skipper

I had one beat up Red-spotted Purple in my yard this morning.  Possible tail end 
of the 1st brood?  They are double brooded in CT, aren't they?

John

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John Himmelman
Killingworth, CT USA
jhimmel at connix.com
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