Flaherty Field Trial Area

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On Saturday, 6/23, I visited Flaherty Field Trial Area in East  Windsor. 
Despite a cold, windy start to the day, I was able to find a total  of 22 species 
of butterflies.  The list for the day is as follows:
 
Cabbage White (21)
Clouded Sulphur (11)
Orange Sulphur (8)
Eastern Tailed Blue (2)
Summer Azure (1)
Great Spangled Fritillary (12)
Baltimore Checkerspot (2) (My first of the year; I see that Rich Chyinski  
also had them today in eastern CT.)
Question Mark (1)
Compton Tortoiseshell (1) (A freshly emerged adult;  possibly a new species 
for Flaherty Field Trial Area)
American Lady (39)
Red Admiral (1)
Little Wood Satyr (2)
Silver-spotted Skipper (3)
Southern Cloudywing (2)
Northern Cloudywing (1)
Least Skipper (5)
European Skipper (120)
Peck's Skipper (40)
Tawny-edged Skipper (2) (very worn)
Northern Broken Dash (1) (My first of the year.)
Little Glassywing (7) (My first of the year.)
Zabulon Skipper (5) (All males)
 
Lenny Brown 
Wallingford



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