Hamden butterflies

[Andrew Brand]

Today's warm temps brought out the butterflies in my Hamden yard and field.

Tiger Swallowtail    1
Cabbage White    2
Clouded Sulphur    3
Orange Sulphur    3 1 was egg laying on vetch
Am. Copper    1
Eastern Tailed Blue    4
Pearl Crescent    16
Mourning Cloak    1
American Lady    2
Viceroy    1
Little Wood Satyr    over 25
Common Ringlet    5
Dreamy Duskywing    14
Juvenal's Duskywing    2
Indian Skipper    2 males
Peck's Skipper    10
Tawny-edged Skipper    4
Long Dash    2 males
Hobomok Skipper    5 males
Dusted Skipper    2 fresh

also saw 2 Eight-spotted Forester Moths
              1 White-striped Black Moth
              1 Anania funebris glomeralis, I saw many other small black, spotted moths that may have been this, some might have been Grape Leaffolder moth?

It was good to get out.
Andy
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