Howard County Conservancy
Butterfly Walk
| Trip leaders:Woody Merkle, Linda Hunt, Kathy Litzinger and Kevin Heffernan | Date of trip: June 25, 2024, 2024 |
| Location: Howard County Conservancy | Number attending: 35 |
| Details: Partly cloudy day with winds of 3 to 7 mph, and a high temperature of 88 degrees. The walk covered much of the grassland loop, the small garden in front of the Gudelsky Center, and the Tulip Poplar trail to the Butterfly garden and the trails over to the Hodge Podge Lodge, the Community Garden and the Honors Garden. The target species for this walk were Coral and Banded Hairstreak which are flying for a few weeks at this time of year. Neither were seen. | |
Silver-spotted Skipper: 2
Horace’s Duskywing: 1
Wild Indigo Duskywing: 1
Little Glassywing: 20
Zabulon Skipper: 1
Dun Skipper: 2
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: 3
Cabbage White: 16
Orange Sulphur: 6
Sleepy Orange: 3
Gray Hairstreak: 1
Eastern Tailed-blue: 7
Summer Azure: 1
American Snout: 2
Great Spangled Fritillary: 1
Pearl Crescent: 7