Butterfly sighting
| Aug 6 |
AVOCA NABA BUTTERFLY COUNT
Location: Lower Wisconsin Riverway
Sleepy Orange 
Fiery Skipper 
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
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| Aug 6 |
AVOCA NABA BUTTERFLY COUNT
Location: Lower Wisconsin Riverway
Sleepy Orange
Fiery Skipper
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
|
14th Annual NABA Count. 79 degrees and sunny -- until about 2 pm when it clouded up. 6 observers from the Southern Wis. Butterfly Association found 444 individuals of 25 species. (Number of individuals was 2nd highest in more than a decade. Species about average.) The following species had record density: Silver-spotted Skipper (36), Clouded Sulphur (123), Cabbage White (25) and Monarch (58)! Two Sleepy Oranges were mating (photo Mike Reese). Thanks to counters Douglas Buege, Karl and Dorothy Legler, Mike Reese, Fred Dyke and Dave Hogg.