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<font color="black" size="2" face="arial">8/16 - Butterfly of the day goes to Red-banded Hairstreak - 13 for the day over four locations. Never gotten double digits for this species in CT before.
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<div>West Rock Ridge SP, New Haven - overlook area:</div>
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<div>Black Swallowtail 1</div>
<div>Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1</div>
<div>Red-banded Hairstreak 1</div>
<div>Summer Azure 1</div>
<div>Tawny-edged Skipper 1</div>
<div>Zabulon Skipper 1</div>
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<div>Also, I spotted three Antlions (adults). Can anyone ID the species? I'm thinking Brachynemurus abdominalis but that would be rare in CT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/connecticutpete/9525646049/in/photostream/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">http://www.flickr.com/photos/connecticutpete/9525646049/in/photostream/</a></div>
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<div>Mount St. Peter's Cemetery, Derby, in the back - 2 Red-banded Hairstreaks</div>
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<div>Osbornedale SP, Derby - cloudy basically the entire time, species diversity ramped up every time the sun came out. Skipper numbers and diversity especially hurt by the clouds:</div>
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<div>dark female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1 - Photos show that this is a different butterfly than the one found by Steve Spector in the same place a couple weeks ago: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/connecticutpete/9528441336/in/photostream/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">http://www.flickr.com/photos/connecticutpete/9528441336/in/photostream/</a></div>
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<div>Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 20</div>
<div>Spicebush Swallowtail 10+</div>
<div>Cabbage White 3</div>
<div>Clouded Sulphur 1</div>
<div>Orange Sulphur 2</div>
<div>Red-banded Hairstreak 8 - conservative count</div>
<div>Eastern-tailed Blue 3</div>
<div>Summer Azure 6</div>
<div>Great Spangled Fritillary 3</div>
<div>Pearl Crescent 1</div>
<div>Common Buckeye 1</div>
<div>Viceroy 2</div>
<div>Common Wood-nymph 1</div>
<div>Monarch 1</div>
<div>Silver-spotted Skipper 5-10</div>
<div>Least Skipper 3</div>
<div>Peck's Skipper 5</div>
<div>Tawny-edged Skipper 4</div>
<div>Zabulon Skipper 10</div>
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<div>Crazy that I've seen more Viceroys than Monarchs so far this year.</div>
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<div>Naugatuck yard - 2 Red-banded Hairstreaks</div>
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<div>Peter DeGennaro</div>
<div>Naugatuck</div>
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