Butterfly sightings for April 2018
Apr 12 2018 |
Rory Williams
Location: Czech and County N
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Apr 12 2018 |
John Davis
Location: On the bluff behind my house in Prairie du Chien
Mid to high 50's with sunshine, the woods were filled with Eastern Commas. Was very difficult to approach them, so I waited for them to come to me. |
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Apr 12 2018 |
Lynne Roberts
Location: Devil's Lake South Shore
I was not expecting this! Glad I had my camera. |
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Apr 20 2018 |
Joan Rickert
Location: My yard, rural Medford
55 degrees, sunny. 3 snowstorms since my first sighting. |
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Apr 20 2018 |
K. Java
Location: Fish Lake SWA - County Rd O
Finally the first butterflies of the year. |
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Apr 20 2018 |
Anne Snow
Location: 3501 Park Lane Drive in front of Hillview Nursing Home
It had landed on a car, stopped for a moment and it was off again! |
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Apr 21 2018 |
Ron Arnold
Location: my property in the town of Seneca
This is the first time I've managed to get a picture of my FOY butterfly. |
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Apr 21 2018 |
Pam Campbell
Location: Hoffman Hills
Yay! Butterfly season is finally here! Also a couple of commas, probably Eastern. Temps in the 50's but there is still snow on some of the trails. |
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Apr 21 2018 |
Daniel Jackson
Location: Jackson Property, rural Chaseburg
still quite a bit of snow on most slopes. South-facing hills open. 1 Eastern Comma seen on one of these open slopes. |
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Apr 22 2018 |
Tammy Verbrick
Location: Potowatomi State Park
Snow everywhere but sunny and low 60’s. |
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Apr 22 2018 |
Kathy Kascewicz
Location: Just south of Fifield
First butterflies, noon, sunny and about 60, on our driveway. Rich colors! Snow is still piled around. |
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Apr 22 2018 |
Sue Feyrer
Location: Smout farmstead
A walk in the woods and finally a butterfly. |
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Apr 22 2018 |
Mike Reese
Location: Ball Rd. south of Sandhill Wildlife Area
My favorite road for finding my first Mourning Cloaks of the year did not disappoint! Not a lot of variety but double figures is good. |
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Apr 22 2018 |
Daniel Jackson
Location: Jackson Property, rural Chaseburg
60s!! Most snow now gone. |
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Apr 23 2018 |
Deb Pritchard
Location: Our home in the Township of Calamus South of Beaver Dam
Had 2 Red Admirals very interested in our Box Elder Tree at around 11 am this morning. |
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Apr 23 2018 |
Douglas Buege
Location: Olbrich Gardens
Finally |
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Apr 23 2018 |
Sylvia Edlebeck, Joan Vennie
Location: Blue Mound State Park
How nice to be surrounded by butterflies again! Lots of commas and Mourning Cloaks as hoped for, but several surprises too. All of the commas spotted appeared to be gray commas. We saw one Compton Tortoiseshell, not a butterfly I've ever seen this far south in Wisconsin (good views so a positive ID, but no good photos). AND while going through my photos I spotted a Red Admiral in the same picture as a mourning cloak. Wasn't expecting that, so was surprised. |
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Apr 23 2018 |
Aaron Carlson
Location: Faville Woods
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Apr 23 2018 |
Ginny Nelson
Location: Yard in Middleton
I am never this excited about seeing a cabbage white, but it has been a LONG winter! |
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Apr 23 2018 |
Daniel Jackson
Location: Onalaska Bike Trail below Sunset Vista Rd
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Apr 24 2018 |
Mike Reese
Location: Brockway Rd.
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Apr 24 2018 |
Joan Braune
Location: Madison yard
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Apr 24 2018 |
Stan Rehm
Location: Fitchburg residential butterfly garden (dormant)
No photo (but not a difficult i.d.). The latest date we've recorded for a FOY butterfly in our yard. |
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Apr 24 2018 |
Beth Stetenfeld
Location: McFarland backyard
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Apr 24 2018 |
Alex Harman
Location: UW-Platteville
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Apr 24 2018 |
Jason Nickels
Location: Mequon, Mequon Nature Preserve Elton's Woods
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Apr 25 2018 |
Mike Reese
Location: Cranberry Rd. outside of Mather
sunny and 45 degrees |
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Apr 25 2018 |
Mike Reese
Location: 3rd Ave. just south of Sprague-Mather Rd
sunny and 47 degrees |
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Apr 27 2018 |
Sue Feyrer
Location: Ryan Rd county property
Sixty and sunny. |
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Apr 28 2018 |
Mike Reese
Location: Avoca Wildlife Area
It was 44 degrees when I saw the Mourning Cloak and 45 degrees when I saw a Common Green Darner. |
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Apr 28 2018 |
Mike Reese. Karl Legler, Dorothy Legler
Location: Spring Green Preserve
55 degrees and sunny. |
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Apr 28 2018 |
Christine Stanke
Location: Cty Hwy T Rosholt
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Apr 28 2018 |
Ann Thering
Location: Spring Green Preserve
51 degrees and cool north wind gusting to 20. |
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Apr 29 2018 |
Sue Feyrer
Location: UW Waukesha Field Station
Sixty and sunny again. |
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Apr 30 2018 |
Daniel Jackson
Location: Bike Trail below Sunset Vista Rd in Onalaska
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Apr 30 2018 |
Christine Stanke
Location: Our yard in Brown Deer
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Apr 30 2018 |
Christine Stanke
Location: Cty Hwy T Rosholt
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Apr 30 2018 |
Christine Stanke
Location: Division Rd. in Germantown
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Found three Eastern Comma in sunny splashes within red/white pine plantation which was selectively cut last year