Butterfly sighting

Jun 19 2012

Douglas Buege

Location: Scott Lake Rd meets Experimental Road
Forest County

This site was a CCC camp up until 1942. I found a field full of lupine--but the domesticated kind, not the short plants. Then I found blues on the lupine--but they were greenish. Also found my first little yellow of the day way up here. Pleasant surprise on a day that started with a thunderstorm and seemed like marginal for butterfly activity.

European skippers were insane in numbers! Hundreds took flight with every step I took. Counted more than 50 in one square foot of blackberry.

Satyr Comma

Satyr Comma

Greenish Blue

Greenish Blue

Hobomok Skipper

Hobomok Skipper

Little Yellow

Little Yellow

European Skipper

European Skipper

American Lady

American Lady

Atlantis Fritillary

Atlantis Fritillary