[Ctleps-l] Butterfly sightings- northwestern Litchfield County

Lenny Brown epmanshell at gmail.com
Thu Jul 6 21:25:52 EDT 2017


On Thursday, July 6th, Steve Rosenthal and I visited Hollenbeck Preserve in
Canaan and Goshen WMA in Goshen. Our species lists for the day are as
follows:

*Hollenbeck Preserve*

Cabbage White (4)
Orange Sulphur (4)
Great Spangled Fritllary (8)
American Lady (1)
Red Admiral (1)
Viceroy (2)
Appalachian (?) Brown (1)
*Eyed Brown (6) *(My first of the year)
Common Wood Nymph (2)
Least Skipper (2)
Peck's Skipper (1)
Delaware Skipper (1) (My first of the year)
*Dion Skipper (2)* (My first of the year)
Dun Skipper(1)

There is a mowed path into the preserve that can be accessed from Page Rd.
off Route 7.  Most butterflies were concentrated in a small area where the
mowed path crossed the line of trees near the center of the preserve.  The
Appalachian (?) Brown was an extremely worn individual that emerged weeks
before the very fresh Eyed Browns.   Since Appalachian Browns emerge weeks
earlier than Eyed Browns, we're assuming this extremely worn individual was
an Appalachian.

*Goshen WMA*

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (2)
Cabbage White (4)
Clouded Sulphur (1)
Orange Sulphur (3)
*Bronze Copper (1)*
Eastern Tailed-Blue (3)
Great Spangled Fritillary (12)
Meadow Fritillary (10)
Common Buckeye (3)
Viceroy (1)
Common Wood Nymph (2)
Silver-spotted Skipper (1)
European Skipper (3)
Peck's Skipper (1)
Long Dash (1) (very worn)

Lenny Brown
Wallingford
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