Butterflies: Hardwick, Hubbardston, & Ware

[Wendy Howes]

A few butterfly reports July 24 - 26

Hardwick yard & garden 7/24

3 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

1 Spicebush Swallowtail

1 Clouded Sulphur

1 'Summer' Azure

1 Great Spangled Fritillary

1 Appalachian Brown

1 Monarch

2 Silver-spotted Skipper

2 Northern Broken Dash

2 Dun Skipper                 [ Also, 2 Snowberry Clearwing, 10 Hummingbird Clearwing (bergamot)]

Quabbin Gate 44, Hardwick, 7/24

1 Great Spangled Fritillary

1 Little Wood Satyr

1 Common Ringlet

Mt.Jefferson Conservation Area, Hubbardston 7/25

2 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

1 Cabbage White

3 Clouded Sulphur

1 Eastern tailed-Blue

1 Great Spangled Fritillary

12 Pearl Crescent

1 Monarch

3 Little Glassywing

1 Dun Skipper

Quabbin Gate 49, Ware, 7/26

1 American Copper

9 Pearl Crescent

2 Northern Pearly Eye

2 Appalachian Brown

8 Little Wood Satyr

1 Silver-spotted Skipper

4 Dun Skipper

Hardwick neighborhood, 7/27

5 Spicebush Swallowtail

2 Great Spangled Fritillary

3 Pearl Crescent

2 Monarch

1 Little Wood Satyr

Wendy Howes & Alan Rawle

Hardwick