Naturalists Club Participates in Monroe-Carbon Butterfly Count
Delaware Skipper
On Saturday June 19, Dan Kunkle and members of the Lehigh Gap Naturalists Club participated in the Monroe-Carbon Butterfly Count. Throughout the morning, the following species and numbers were observed at the Nature Center:
1 Black Swallowtail
1 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
13 Spicebush Swallowtail
73 Cabbage Whites
3 Clouded Sulphur
5 Orange Sulphur
1 Gray Hairstreak
9 Summer Azure
1 Great Spangeled Fritillary
5 Red Admiral
6 Silver-spotted Skipper
7 Least Skipper
2 European Skipper
1 Tawny-edged Skipper
2 Little Glassywing
2 Delaware Skipper
1 Common Roadside Skipper
Total numbers from the survey, which included two additional nearby survey areas led by Corey Husic and Arlene Koch were:
Tawny-edged Skipper
1 Black Swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes)
3 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus)
22 Spicebush Swallowtail (Papilio troilus)
89 Cabbage White (Pieris rapae)
16 Clouded Sulphur (Colias philodice)
7 Orange Sulphur (Colias eurytheme)
1 Striped Hairstreak (Satyrium liparops)
1 Gray Hairstreak (Strymon melinus)
5 Eastern Tailed-Blue (Cupido comyntas)
10 Summer Azure (Celastrina neglecta)
34 Great Spangled Fritillary (Speyeria cybele)
1 Common Buckeye (Junonia coenia)
6 Milbert’s Tortoiseshell (Aglais milberti)
8 Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta)
1 Hackberry Emperor (Asterocampa celtis)
Eastern Tailed-Blue
2 Northern Pearly Eye (Enodia anthedon)
7 Little Wood Satyr (Megisto cymela)
5 Common Wood Nymph (Cercyonis pegala)
7 Silver-spotted Skipper (Epargyreus clarus)
1 Northern Cloudywing (Thorybes pylades)
15 Least Skipper (Ancyloxypha numitor)
51 European Skipper (Thymelicus lineola)
1 Tawny-edged Skipper (Polites themistocles)
2 Crossline Skipper (Polites origenes)
4 Northern Broken-Dash (Wallengrenia egeremet)
42 Little Glassywing (Pompeius verna)
2 Delaware Skipper (Anatrytone logan)
2 Hobomok Skipper (Poanes hobomok)
1 Dun Skipper (Euphyes vestris)
1 Common Roadside-Skipper (Amblyscirtes vialis)
Little Glassywing
