Tue 24 Jun 2008
First Butterfly Walk of the Season - 13 Species seen
Posted by Nicole under Field Trips
On June 21, Mona Miller (”The Butterfly Lady”) led our first butterfly walk of the season. Over 20 people, adults and kids, came out to Banshee Reeks to spot our flying friends and help with identification.
Here’s a quick report of the species seen:
Great Spangled Fritillary (numerous)
Eastern Tailed Blue
Hickory Hairstreak (rare)
Mourning Cloak
Zebra Swallowtail
Black Swallowtail
Least Skipper
Duns Skipper
Little Glassywing
Cabbage White
Clouded Sulpher
Littlewood Satyr
and an unidentified Anglewing
Join us for our next butterfly walk at Claude Moore Park in July. Check out our Programs and Field Trips page for more information.
June 24th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Thanks to Mona for bringing the Pipevine Swallowtail caterpillars for pre-walk viewing and the monarchs for release!
June 25th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Yes, many thanks to Mona!! And, the Hickory hairstreak was a *record* sighting - We’re trying to track down a photograph from anyone who was in the walk so we can document the sighting!
June 25th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
I have a pair of images. There is a bit of motion blur in each of them. Here they are, let me know if you need a larger version. (I cropped these before uploading them.) #2 is the one with less camera shake, #1 has better hind wing detail.
Not sure if there is a better way to get these to you.