Butterfly sighting

Karl and Dorothy Legler, Mike Reese

Location: Northern Kettle Moraine
Fond du Lac County

14th annual NABA butterfly count at Northern Kettle Moraine. We found 33 species with record numbers of Question Marks, American Ladies, Red Admirals, Broad-winged Skippers, and Monarchs.

Black Swallowtail 1
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5
Clouded Sulphur 18
Orange Sulphur 9
Little Yellow 2
Harvester 1
Coral Hairstreak 2
Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
‘Summer’ Spring Azure 27
Swamp Metalmark 4
Great Spangled Fritillary 14
Aphrodite Fritillary 3
Gorgone Checkerspot 7
Northern Crescent 2
Question Mark 17
Eastern Comma 5
Gray Comma 1
Mourning Cloak 1
American Lady 6
Red Admiral 146
Red-spotted Purple 1
Viceroy 2
Northern Pearly-eye 7
Eyed Brown 3
Appalachian Brown 5
Common Wood-Nymph 148
Monarch 116
Northern Broken-Dash 11
Little Glassywing 2
Delaware Skipper 4
Broad-winged Skipper 12
Black Dash 3
Dun Skipper 6

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