Butterfly and Dragonfly Walk - CMP State Park

The CMBO has a new walk on Sundays with several of their naturalists that looked really interesting to me so I decided to go on it.  The walk was led by Will Kerling who has studied butterflies for many years.  His knowledge about them is increbible. He was assisted by Chris Tomlinson, Nancy Watson and Mike Hannisian. 

We covered 2 different habitats during the walk. We saw 18 species of butterflies - Little Yellow, Cloudless Sulphurs, a rare White M Hairstreak, Orange Sulphur, Varigated Fritillary, Mourning Cloaks, American Snout, Black Swallowtails, Common Buckeyes, American Ladies, Painted Ladies, Pearl Crescents, Common Wood Nymph, Long-tailed Skipper, Fiery Skippers, Sachems, Ocola Skipper and many, many Monarchs. We had good looks at most of them along with a Cloudless Yellow Sulphur that had just emerged from a chrylsis and was drying his wings.  (left)

Ocola Skipper (left)

The most unusual bug we saw was a Wheel Bug (left).