[Ctleps-l] Butterfly sightings- West Rock Ridge St. Park, Hamden-New Haven

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On Saturday, 6/22, I visited both the Lake Wintergreen section of the park  
and hiked the top of the ridge from the parkway south to the  overlook.  
The list for the day is as follows:
 
Spicebush Swallowtail (2)
Cabbage White (25)
Orange Sulphur (1)
Banded Hairstreak (23) (on top of the ridge and along the access road to  
the overlook)
Hickory Hairstreak (2+) (My first of the year) (On the access road; two  
individuals were perching on the same hickory sapling)
Summer Azure (3)
Great Spangled Fritillary (7)
Little Wood-Satyr (10)
Silver-spotted Skipper (1)
Hoary Edge (4)
Southern Cloudywing (6)
Least Skipper (1)
European Skipper (30)
Little Glassywing (1) (My first of the year)
Dun Skipper (1) (My first of the year)
 
On a negative note, despite a diligent search, for the second year in a  
row, I was unable to find Edwards' Hairstreak at this site and note that Larry 
 Gall found only 2 Edwards' Hairstreaks on the 2012 Southern New Haven 4th 
of  July butterfly count.  I'm concerned this site is becoming too warm for  
this northern species and would be very interested in any reports of 
Edwards'  Hairstreak in the state.
 
Lenny Brown
Wallingford
 
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