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| Silver-spotted skippers |
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| Summer Azure |
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| Common Buckeye |
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| Clouded Sulphur |
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| Variegated Fritillary |
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| Variegated Fritillary |
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| Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
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 was out working in the yard today and saw a Fritillary that kept moving in & out of my sights. Finally, it settled enough to see it was a Variegated Fritillary and she was laying eggs on the garden pansies I plant every year for her. I baby them along in the heat because that's one of their host plants. She placed a good number of eggs between the front & yard pansies. Of course, that meant I needed to play around with my camera and get pictures of the eggs.
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| Garden Pansy with Variegated Fritillary Egg |
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| Close-up of Egg |
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| A Second Egg on a New Blossom |
Lots of good butterflies here. Good numbers of Variegated Fritillaries plus I found a VF chrysalis out by the driveway. it's really gorgeous. Also, found Juniper Hairstreaks which I never expected to find. There is lots of variations of color on the wings.
Variegated Fritillary 
Variegated Fritillary
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| Variegated Fritillary Chrysalis |
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| Variegated Fritillary Chrysalis |
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| Juniper Hairstreak |
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| Juniper Hairstreak |
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| Juniper Hairstreak |
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 |
