Haddam Meadows 7/04

Clay Taylor CTaylor at worldnet.att.net
Fri Jul 7 13:10:04 EDT 2000


Butterflying at Haddam Meadows State Park, Haddam, CT
Here's an update from the East Haddam count - our best butterfly list from Haddam Meadows State Park since the Common Checkered Skipper on the 1988 count there.
Tiger Swallowtail - 4
Cabbage White - 120
Clouded Sulphur - 1
Orange Sulphur - 10
American Copper - 110
E. Tailed-Blue - 25
Great Spangled Frit. - 4
Variegated Frit. - 1 (50 yds north of buttonbush / swamp milkweed area by boat launch parking)
Baltimore Checkerspot - 2 (same area as Var. Frit.)
American Lady - 8
Common Buckeye - (at north end of unmowed area)
Eastern Comma - 1
Red Admiral - 3
Monarch - 2 (most of the roadside milkweeds were mowed down)
Silver-spotted Skipper - 25 (in dogbane / heavy veg. south of skating pond)
Least Skipper - 3 (by pond)
Crossline Skipper - 1
Northern Broken-Dash - 2
Delaware Skipper - 5

Total species - 19
Total individuals - 324

Had we stayed longer, the list would have undoubtedly grown.  I still have not made the time to visit there in early summer to see the first flight of Bronzed Coppers, since we know the September flight there is pretty reliable.

Clay Taylor
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