Butterfly Walk at Howard County Conservancy
| Trip leader: Kevin Heffernan, Woody Merkle, Linda Hunt, Kathy Litzinger, & Cris Ausin | Date of trip: August 10, 2024 |
| Location: Howard County Conservancy | Number attending: 30 |
| Details: It was a sunny day with a temperature of 79 degrees. The participants were split into two groups. The walk covered the Community Garden, the Cedar Trail, the Old Oak trail to the butterfly garden, the Tulip Poplar trail, the small garden in front of the Gudelsky Center, and the Honors Garden. Cris Ausin had come early and photographed an Appalachian Brown, the 69th species recorded for Mount Pleasant! | |
Silver Spotted-skipper 19
Horace’s Duskywing 3
Wild Indigo Duskywing 2
Common Checkered-skipper 1
Fiery Skipper 5
Tawny-edged Skipper 1
Little Glassywing 5
Sachem 8
Zabulon Skipper 15
Black Swallowtail 1
Eastern Tiger ST 9
Spicebush ST 8
Cabbage White 10
Clouded Sulphur 1
Cloudless Sulphur 3
Sleepy Orange 8
Eastern Tailed-blue 6
Variegated Fritillary 1
Pearl Crescent 5
Question Mark 1
Red Admiral 1
Common Buckeye 1
Hackberry Emperor 1
Northern Pearly-eye 1
Monarch 1