Menunkatuck Audubon Society's Biodiversity Day in Guilford

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On Saturday, September 8th, members of the CT Butterfly Association 
participated in the Biodiversity Day survey in Guilford and found a total of 
29 species of butterflies including one butterfly caterpillar.  The count 
totals are summarized below:

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (caterpillar)
Spicebush Swallowtail (1)
Cabbage White (25)
Clouded Sulphur (47)
Orange Sulphur (15)
Little Yellow (1) Dudley Farm
American Copper (3)
Gray Hairstreak (2) (The Sluice, Bittner Park)
Eastern Tailed Blue (15)
Great Spangled Fritillary (8)
Pearl Crescent (37)
Question Mark (1)
American Lady (2)
Painted Lady (42+)
Red Admiral (25+)
Common Buckeye (1) (Soundview Rd.)
Viceroy (1) (Braemore)
Common Wood Nymph (1) (Braemore)
Monarch (21)
Silver-spotted Skipper (11)
Wild Indigo Duskywing (1) (Jared Eliot Preserve)
Common Checkered Skipper (3) (Dudley Farm)
Common Sootywing (1) (Dudley Farm)
Least Skipper (4)
Peck's Skipper (4)
Tawny-edged Skipper (2)
Northern Broken Dash (1) (Braemore)
Zabulon Skipper (1) (Jared Eliot Preserve)
Broad-winged Skipper (3)

In closing, I want to commend the organizers of the Guilford Biodiversity Day 
for a job well done. Because it was very well organized, it a pleasure to 
participate in this survey.

Lenny Brown
Wallingford

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