Greetings, VT Lepsters:

Finally catching up with some work I did during a visit to Delta Park in
Colchester on 10July, I found what is most likely a female Little
Glassywing (Pompeius verna). Does anyone have experience with that species
in Chittenden County or nearby?

David, did you get a digital shot (or specimen) of your Little Glassywing?
If so, I'd love to see it. I have such little experience with that species.

Mine has no ventral hindwing marginal spot band. The forewing spots look
good -- nothing like those sharp spots on female Dun Skipper. She lacks the
"white patches" at the base of the antennae that Glassberg mentions for
Little Glassywing.

Bryan Pfeiffer



At 10:47 PM 7/19/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Azure sp. (including a ladon marginata type)
>Eastern Tailed-Blue (three)
>   (also, a small very-hyperactive blue -- no chance to net!!!)
>Great Spangled Fritillary (many)
>Northern Pearly Eye (many)
>Appalachian Brown
>Little Wood Satyr
>Common Wood Nymph;  one glimpsed mid-week had a bright yellow patch.
>  most of today's 50+ were without any yellow unf patch.  Two samples at:
>    http://community.webshots.com/photo/38688780/43991526vNGOtc
>Silver-spotted Skipper
>Northern Cloudywing
>Least Skipper
>European Skipper
>Peck's Skipper
>Long Dash
>Northern Broken Dash
>Little Glassywing
>Delaware Skipper
>Hobomok Skipper
>Dun Skipper
>
>Great Ash Sphinx Moth
>  and the greatest assemblage of caterpillar-eaters
>(Red-eyed Vireos) in one woodlot I have ever encountered.
>    Dave Hoag, Grand Isle

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