[Ctleps-l] Mansfield Hollow 6-14

[Raymond Simpson]

Hey all,

Went to check out this area again as most reports are from April and May,
and it has a lot of odonate potential.  I was not disappointed there.
 Butterflies were spotty as it was mostly cloudy the whole time (despite
the forecast).

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Cabbage White
Frosted Elfin - 2 (very late, I have a picture of one of them)
American Copper - 1
Redspotted Purple
Pearl Crescent
Red Admiral - 1
American Lady - 3
Little Wood Satyr
Peck's Skipper
Tawny-edged Skipper
Long Dash - 1
Indian Skipper - 1
Dusted Skipper - 5
Zabulon Skipper - 1
Hobomok Skipper
European Skipper - 1 (vanguard of the horde I guess)
Southern Cloudywing (with white hindwing fringe)
Juvenal's Duskywing (beat to heck)

Odonates were dense... top abundance species are first:
Chalk-fronted Corporal
Lancet Clubtail
Common Baskettail
Dot-tailed Whiteface
Eastern Pondhawk
Spangled Skimmer
Widow Skimmer
Calico Pennant
Blue Dasher (first 2 of the horde)
Common Whitetail
Painted Skimmer
12-spotted Skimmer
Slaty Skimmer
Stream Cruiser
Green Darner
Black-shouldered Spinyleg - 1
Delta-spotted Spiketail - 1
Orangey meadowhawk type thing - several

Also a larger sized Lancet-like clubtail (relatively, but not a large
gomphid) was flying, but I cannot ID them very well yet.

There were lots of the immature/female colored clear winged Libellula
skimmers which are tough to ID.  Some were large and others were smaller.
 Only the Spangleds were IDable without netting.  12-spotted was IDed by
male, Slaty by a blue male, and Painted/Widow are easy.  The large
Libellula could be Great Blue, but I don't know the range of these southern
Libellula up here yet.

Ray Simpson
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