Butterfly sightings- West Rock Ridge St. Park, New Haven

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Sun Jul 3 08:28:40 EDT 2011


On Saturday afternoon (7/2), Steve Rosenthal and I walked the top of the  
ridge at West Rock Ridge Park, from the tunnel south to the overlook, and 
found  a total of 15 species of butterflies.  The list for the day is as  
follows:
 
Spicebush Swallowtail (4)
Cabbage White (2)
Orange Sulphur (1)
Edwards' Hairstreak (7) (my first of the year)
Banded Hairstreak (29)
Hickory Hairstreak (1)
Summer Azure (3)
Mourning Cloak (1)
Red Admiral (1)
Little Wood Satyr (1)
Silver-spotted Skipper (2)
Hoary Edge (2)
Crossline Skipper (1) (my first of the year)
Northern Broken Dash (1)
Little Glassywing (2)
 
Lenny Brown
Wallingford
 
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