Lighthouse Point Park, New Haven

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On Saturday, 9/1- I visited Lighthouse Point Park in New Haven where I  found 
a total of 18 species of butterflies, including 16 species in the  butterfly 
garden itself.  The list for the day is as follows:
 
Black Swallowtail (2) (both males)
Spicebush Swallowtail (1)
Cabbage White (20)
Clouded Sulphur (5)
Orange Sulphur (6)
Cloudless Sulphur (1+) (One female & a possible second  individual that flew 
by very quickly)
Eastern Tailed Blue (1)
American Lady (3)
Painted Lady (3)
Red Admiral (3)
Common Buckeye (1)
Monarch (66)
Silver-spotted Skipper (1)
Fiery Skipper (2) (A very fresh female and a very fresh male)
Peck's Skipper (1)
Tawny-edged Skipper (1)
Zabulon Skipper (7) (3 males and 4 females)
Broad-winged Skipper (3)
 
The fact that there were 16 species of butterflies in the butterfly garden  
bodes well for the field trip scheduled for this site next Saturday (9/8).
 
On the way home, I stopped at Vinny's Nursery in Wallingford where I found  a 
very fresh Leonard's Skipper nectaring on the butterfly  bushes.
 
Vinny's Nursery is on S. Colony Rd. in Wallingford, just north of I-91 Exit  
13.
 
This is the third year I have found Leonard's Skipper at Vinny's  Nursery.  
That suggests that the species is breeding somewhere nearby, and  visiting the 
nursery to nectar.
 
Lenny Brown
Wallingford
 
 
 



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