<div dir="ltr"><div>Over the weekend BK and I tried to see as many species at Steep Rock as possible and despite some notable misses (3 Swallowtails, Red-spotted Purple, 3 Hairstreaks) we managed to tally 30 species.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cabbage White</div><div>Clouded Sulphur</div><div>American Copper</div><div>Banded Hairstreak</div><div>Eastern Tailed-Blue</div><div>Summer Azure</div><div>Great Spangled Fritillary</div><div>Aphrodite Fritillary</div>
<div>Meadow Fritillary</div><div>Baltimore Checkerspot</div><div>Question Mark</div><div>Eastern Comma</div><div>Mourning Cloak -- 3, very fresh</div><div>Red Admiral</div><div>Viceroy</div><div>Northern Pearly-eye -- seems to be a good year for them</div>
<div>Appalachian Brown</div><div>Little Wood-Satyr</div><div>Common Wood-Nymph</div><div>Monarch -- 4</div><div>Silver-spotted Skipper</div><div>Least Skipper</div><div>European Skipper</div><div>Peck's Skipper</div><div>
Crossline Skipper</div><div>Northern Broken Dash</div><div>Little Glassywing</div><div>Delaware Skipper</div><div>Dun Skipper</div><div>Dusted Skipper -- late and worn</div><div><br></div><div>As others have reported, we have a great crop of milkweed this year and little on it. We were encouraged by the four Monarchs, but Skipper and Hairstreak numbers which have been good on the milkweed in the past are low.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Peary and BK</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>