Another good visit to Wolf's Hollow Chester County Park. Much of the nectar is drying up and dying back at this point including the Joe Pye Weed and the fields of red clover so there were not as many butterflies flying as my last visit on 8/5/22. Last time, I estimated several hundred Eastern Tiger Swallowtails flying whereas today there were probably around 75-100 seen. That's still an amazing number of them to me. It's someplace I'd like to visit weekly next year as there is a potential for so many species here. I haven't walked any of the woods area where there could be species seen also. I did see my first Fiery Skipper of the season here. Sure wish it had been in my yard but hopefully, one will come visiting. I also saw Summer Azure, Common Buckeye, Variegated Fritillary, Cabbage White, Clouded Skipper, Black Swallowtail and Horace's Duskywing for a 21 species day. Plus the 4 to 6 Snowberry Clearwing Hummingbird moths I saw on the verbena. Again today, I only walked about 1/4 of the trail around the meadow.
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| Large stand of verbena bonariensis saw many skippers, hummingbird moths and butterflies nectaring on it. Thinking that this might be great for my yard as I tend to place mine between other plantings. |
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| Eastern Tailed-Blue |
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| Fiery Skipper |
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| Fiery Skipper |
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| Little Glassywing |
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| Least Skipper |
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| Meadow Fritillary |
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| Monarch Caterpillar |
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| Orange Sulphur |
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| Pearl Crescent |
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| Peck's Skipper |
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| Peck's Skipper |
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| Sachem Skippers |
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| Silver-spotted Skipper |
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| Orange Sulphur |
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| Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
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| unknown Skippers |
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| Zabulon Skipper - female |
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| Zabulon Skipper - male |
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