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

Steve Walter swalter15 at verizon.net
Sat Jun 22 17:32:00 EDT 2013


Hi Lenny,
I think it's still early for Edward's, even though Banded is out. I'd try again in a week.

Steve Walter


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From: Epmanshell at aol.com 
Date: 06/22/2013  4:22 PM  (GMT-05:00) 
To: ctleps-l at mailman.yale.edu 
Subject: Re: [Ctleps-l] Butterfly sightings- West Rock Ridge St. Park,	Hamden-New Haven 
 
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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