Fresh Meadows Sanctuary, Cheshire

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Sun Aug 11 08:51:23 EDT 2002


A visit to the above locality on Saturday, 8/10 turned up 14 species of 
butterflies including an Aphrodite Fritillary nectaring on thistle.  The 
complete list is as follows:

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (8)
Cabbage White (11)
Clouded Sulphur (2)
Orange Sulphur (1)
American Copper (2)
Eastern Tailed Blue (6)
Great Spangled Fritillary (1)
Aphrodite Fritillary (1)
Pearl Crescent (5)
Common Ringlet (2)
Silver-spotted Skipper (9)
Least Skipper (1)
Peck's Skipper (23)
Tawny-edged Skipper (8)

Most species were found nectaring on either the Purple Loosestrife, New York 
Ironweed or thistle.

An additional 6 species of butterflies were found at Broken Arrow Nursery in 
Hamden, including a Viceroy and a worn Red-spotted Purple, bringing the list 
for the day up to 20 species.

Lenny Brown
Wallingford

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