Field Trip Report- Flaherty Field Trial Area

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On Saturday, 7/19, Ten intrepid butterflies joined me at the Flaherty Field  
Trial Area in East Windsor. 
 
Despite the heat and humidity, we were able to find a total of 30 species  of 
butterflies.  The list for the day is as follows:
 
Black Swallowtail (3)
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (1)
Spicebush Swallowtail (3)
Cabbage White (25)
Clouded Sulphur (15)
Orange Sulphur (15)
American Copper (6)
Gray Hairstreak (1) (This may be a new species for Flaherty)
Eastern Tailed Blue (4)
Summer Azure (4)
Great Spangled Fritillary (40)
Silver-bordered Fritillary (4)
Pearl Crescent (1,300)
Baltimore Checkerspot (5)
Question Mark (1)
Eastern Comma (1)
American Lady (3)
Common Buckeye (3) (Seen in PM only)
Red-spotted Purple (1)
Viceroy (17)
Appalachian Brown (1) (Seen in PM only)
Little Wood Satyr (5)
Common Ringlet (4)
Common Wood Nymph (400)
Monarch (9)
Silver-spotted Skipper (3)
Horace's Duskywing (3) (all males)
Tawny-edged Skipper (1) (very fresh second brood)
Northern Broken Dash (2)
Little Glassywing (2)
 
Lenny Brown
Wallingford
 
 



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