While hunting unsuccessfully for Checker Skippers yesterday (9/11)
I found in 4 fields, (some alfalfa, some grown in pasture with milkweed, goldenrod, asters, clover etc);
below Mt Anthony in Bennington:
Monarch 20 (This was at 11 AM were they migrants or hatched from those fields?)
Monarch caterpillars 5
Clouded Sulphur 61
Orange " 4
Cabbage White 2
Crescent Sp. 5
Eastern-tailed Blue 3
Great Spangled Fritillary 1 (very fresh)
Then in 4 fields at Bennington College later in the day (3 - 4 PM)
Monarchs 19
Clouded Sulphur 30
Orange " 3
Crescent sp 10
Cabbage White 18
Great Spangled Frit 2
Meadow Fritillary 43 (some worn some fresh a partial 4th brood ?)
Viceroy 2
Black Swallowtail 2 (both males)
Common Ringlet 1
American Copper 1
Eastern-tailed Blue 14
Wild Indigo Dusky-wing 4 (fresh)
and 2 Peck's Skippers.
A good day. Terri Armata
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