Butterfly Walk after Pollinator Fest

Trip leaders: Kevin Heffernan, Woody Merkle, Cris Ausin, Annette Allor
Recorder: Kevin Heffernan
Number attending: 25
Location: Howard County Conservancy at Mount Pleasant
Details: It was a partly cloudy day with winds of 5 mph, and a temperature from 80 to 83 degrees. The walk covered part of the grassland loop, the Davis Branch trail, the East Branch trail, part of the Tulip Poplar trail past the Hodge Podge Lodge, the Cedar Trail to the Community Garden and the Community Garden. The large number of Little Wood Satyrs and the four American Snouts were the highlights of the day.

Silver-spotted Skipper: 2
Least Skipper: 3
Hobomok Skipper: 2
Zabulon Skipper: 15
Dun Skipper: 1
Spicebush Swallowtail: 1
Cabbage White: 20
Eastern Tailed-Blue: 4
Summer Azure: 7
American Snout: 4
Red Admiral: 1
Little Wood-Satyr: 45