After 3 days of cool temps in the low 60’s with winds; today was sunny & 75. 3 mint fresh species - Gray Hairstreak, Painted Lady & Silver-spotted plus first sighting of Long-tailed since 11/1.
Silver-spotted 
Sachem 
Fiery 
Painted Lady 
Variegated Fritillary 
Long-tailed 
Gray Hairstreak 
Fiery 
Common Buckeye
Seen in my yard. Past few sunny days of low winds & temps 78-82 degrees has kept the butterflies going. 11 species of butterflies still flying including a Monarch, several Common-checkered, several Pearl Crescents and more. ID's below the pictures.
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| Common-checkered |
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| Cloudless Sulphur |
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| Common Buckeye - Rosa Form |
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| Eastern-tailed Blue |
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| Fiery |
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| Painted Lady |
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| Pearl Crescent |
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| Variegated Fritillary |
I had a super few days in Cape May last week. Here are some of the 15 species of butterflies I saw while there. I sure wish I'd seen more Monarch's but I saw really great numbers of Ocola's, Long-tailed and Fiery's to make up for the Monarch's.
I had a super few days in Cape May last week. Here are some of the 15 species of butterflies I saw while there. I sure wish I'd seen more Monarch's but I saw really great numbers of Ocola's, Long-tailed and Fiery's to make up for the Monarch's.
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| Center front garden from my former home |
Painted Lady 
Painted Lady 
Long-tailed 
Ocola 
Fiery 
American Lady
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| Monarch |
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| Red Admiral |
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| Ocola |
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| Black Swallowtail |
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| Long Tailed |
Yesterday, I had the best butterfly day of the year here at my home & probably the best in the yard since I moved to PA. It had rained the past few days so the butterflies were anxious to be out & about again as the sun was shining brightly. I saw 19 species of butterflies with about 6 clearwing moths which included both Hummingbird & Snowberry.
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| Painted Lady |
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| Huron Sachem |
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| Pearl Crescent |
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| Eastern-tailed Blue |
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| Zebulon |
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| Monarch |
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| Hummingbird Clearwing |
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| Snowberry Clearwing |
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| Fiery |
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| Red-banded Hairstreak |
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| Red Admiral |
Fun day ~ Long, long lunch with friends I worked with at my first nursing job at Delaware County Memorial Hospital 50 years ago. After lunch, some time in my garden watching birds & butterflies. Glad to see a late migrating Ruby-throated hummingbird.
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| On Thursday, a Fiery finally stopped by my place. It was 9 weeks later than when seen 2022. |
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| Painted Lady |
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| Sachem |
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| Variegated Fritillary |
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| Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
At Wolf's Hollow in Atglen yesterday, I saw 14 species of butterflies. Here are images of some of them. Best butterflies were Ocola & Fiery, both southern strays. I can't find any other records of Ocola being seen there. It was sunny, low to mid 80's with winds 5-8 MPH. So nice to see after a week of drab, rainy weather.
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| Ocola |
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| Fiery |
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| Variegated Fritillary |
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| Peck's |
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| Painted Lady |
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| Orange Sulphur |
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| Monarch |
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| Meadow Fritillary |
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| American Lady |
