Allegany Adventure

Tom Stock and I headed out to Allegany County today to visit a few sites for “must-have” early spring fliers for the MD100 project.  It was a superb day to be butterflying, and both of us boosted our annual total significantly!

A number of small whites are flying in Allegany at this season, most of which are the quite diminutive first spring brood of Cabbage White.  The challenge is differentiating these in flight from the past-peak flight of Falcate Orangetips and the always-hoped-for Olympia Marble.  We were delighted to see small but stable numbers of Olympia Marbles flying among the other two, but except for the one we photographed the other determinations were made almost all the time in the hand (or in the net, as it were).

Silvery Blue is flying now wherever there are substantial amounts of vetch in bloom, and that includes roadsides of Oldtown-Orleans Road and Piclic Road in Green Ridge State Forest.  The azure flight is about over:  We had two only Summer Azures during our field work today.

All the expected duskywings are flying, including super-abundant numbers of Juvenal’s Duskywing and smaller numbers of both Dreamy and Sleepy Duskywings.  Other skippers that surprised us today were Common Roadside Skipper (always a good find) and Northern Cloudywing (early for this species).  We dipped officially on one of the Green Ridge specialties, Cobweb Skipper, despite the fact that other folks had it in abundance were we were just last week.

Most expected swallowtails are out:  Eastern Tiger, Spicebush, Pipevine, Zebra, Black.  We did not not see Appalachian Tiger but expect it will emerge within the next week or two in Allegany.

Other notable butterflies to round out our 28-species day included Meadow Fritillary, Clouded Sulphur, Sleepy Orange, Henry’s Elfin, and American Copper.

And speaking of copper:  At one point scrambling up a shale scree back to the car I was about to grab a root to give me a boost up.  Good thing I took a closer look:  Not a root but a Copperhead.  Handsome snake, but clearly not enjoying my company.

Today added 7 new species to my MD100 count, bringing my total to 36 for the season.  Need to clean up all the other early single-brooded species, so the next couple of nice days will see me out trying to secure Frosted Elfin and West Virginia White, among others.

 

A Yule Gift

Black chiffon butterfly net -- thanks Santa!

So — probably sensing my disappointment with the continuing cold weather and the prospect of heavy snow — Santa took pity and delivered a fine new British-style net for the 2011 season.  Black dacron chiffon with a square cut tip so as not to crush butterfly wings, and an extra long bag.  Very fine and very soft.  Fits both the old net handles I have.  Same gift box included two, somewhat stiffer, green bags, so I’m all set for the first butterflies of the New Year.  What’ll it be?  Cloak? Comma? White?

 

Final Tally — DelMarVa Big Year

Well, here it is:  the final tally for my DelMarVa Butterfly Big Year.  The total stands today, at the end of November, at 71.

A bit off from the very ambitious push to 100 that I was hoping for!

Then again, it’s about half of all the butterflies known from the region, including a huge number of leps that occur only sporadically or that once occurred but are presumed extirpated.

There were some very good finds:  Yehl’s skipper at the Great Dismal Swamp, Leonard’s skipper at Soldier’s Delight, and Olympia marble at a Maryland location I chose not to disclose to protect this fragile population.  But there were equally disappointing misses, including brown elfin, European skipper, silvery blue, white M hairstreak, and – most perplexing! – coral hairstreak.  A little more diligent searching and a more relaxed work year would have picked these up easily.

I’m currently reading Robert Michael Pyle’s Mariposa Road, and feeling very smug that I had just as many great field experiences over the course of my local big year as he did in what he touts as the first national Butterfly Big Year.  And the truth is, as I look back and reflect on where I found each of these butterflies for the first time in 2010 (and sometimes for the first time ever), it’s hard to feel any kind of disappointment at all.

Here’s to a great butterflying year in 2011, and I hope to see you all in the field next year!

 

Terrapin Park Produces!

If you’re wondering where all the monarchs were yesterday, chances are that some of them were at Terrapin Nature Park on Kent Island in Queen Anne’s County.

This almost sole holdout against development on Kent Island (the first set of communities you come to when you cross the Bay Bridge from Annapolis; Terrapin Point and Park are the strip of green to your left of the foot of the bridge span going east) is an amazing trap for migrants of various kinds heading up and down the Chesapeake.  Birders know it for regular bonanzas of warblers dropping out during spring and fall migration (and indeed yesterday the trees were swarming with palm warblers). Bikers know it as the terminus of Kent Island Cross Island Trail.  Lep folks should be checking it more regularly for the rarities it’s sure to produce from time to time.

No real rarities yesterday when I was there from around 1 pm to 6 pm on a picture perfect day for butterfly watching. I had planned to spend an hour or so there before heading down toward Wye Island NRMA, but the butterflying was too good to leave once I got to Terrapin Park.

If you don’t already know about Terrapin Park, you might well miss it.  There are no signs from US 50 headed to the beach, and it’s tucked away far out on the tip of the Island behind a business park complex.  There’s a strip of beach, but it’s narrow and attracts mostly folks who fish rather than sun and swim.

But from a natural history perspective, it’s pretty spectacular.  One highlight is the restored wildflower meadow immediately adjacent the parking lot.  I’m guessing it’s about 12-15 acres — pretty small by meadow standards — but yesterday it was filled with tickseed sunflower (Bidens) in full flower, and white eupatorium tin its first flush hat will be in full bloom by next weekend.  Both were dripping with butterflies.

Tickseed sunflower in the tidal wetlands at Terrapin Park

Where to start?  With the most charismatic, I guess — in this small meadow I conservatively estimate there were 300-400 monarchs, most nectaring contentedly on the tickseed.  And given that this same wildflower abundance is repeated at several large tracts and many smaller ones throughout Terrapin Park, I’m guessing there were well over a thousand monarchs in place there yesterday.

Tickseed sunflower in the Wildflower Meadow

And they weren’t alone — buckeyes were everywhere superabundant, a big discussion on many of the butterfly listservs this season.  Silver-spotted skippers were superabundant, too, and variegated fritillaries were at the very least abundant (I stopped counting at 50).

But the story was numbers, not rarities.  I’d hoped to pick up some northward-ranging specialties of the South, or some of the rarer Eastern Shore skippers like Rare.  No such luck.  But broad-winged skippers were more common than anywhere else I’ve seen them in Maryland (not that surprising, given the abundance of their host plant, reed, in the surrounding tidal wetlands).  I never thought I’d write this line this season, but there were more broad-winged skippers (22) yesterday than sachems!  Also saw a few fiery skippers and my FOY checkered white.

The tickseed and eupatorium should last a couple more weekends, and goldenrod is just beginning to come on, so participants in the Sept. 25 Audubon Naturalist Society butterfly outing here (and to the old Horsehead Sanctuary at Chesapake Bay Education Center in Grasonville) should still be in luck.

Be sure to keep your eyes open for non-leps, too.  Flying squirrels were out in some numbers along the woodland trail, as was a very obliging black rat snake.  Be sure to wear long pants, too — you will definitely want to wander into the meadows to check out concentrations of flowering plants, and while the vegetation is mostly around knee or thigh height, there’s an abundance of brambles in the grass as my ripped and bleeding calves could attest!

White Eupatorium at Terrapin Park (probably late-flowering boneset)

Directions to explore Terrapin Park on your own:  From Annapolis, take US Hwy. 50 east to exit 37 (the first exit after crossing the Chesapeake Bay Bridge) and turn left onto MD Route 8. Follow Route 8 to the second light and turn left into Chesapeake Bay Business Park. Follow the road to the right around the circle until you come to Terrapin Nature Park. There is ample parking and portable toilets are at the trailhead.

Here’s the full list from my five hours in the field yesterday at Terrapin Nature Park, Queen Anne’s County, MD:
Black Swallowtail       Papilio polyxenes       Adult       4
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail     Papilio glaucus     Adult     3
Spicebush Swallowtail     Papilio troilus     Adult     Common
Checkered White     Pontia protodice     Adult     1
Cabbage White     Pieris rapae     Adult     1
Clouded Sulphur     Colias philodice     Adult     2
Orange Sulphur     Colias eurytheme     Adult     6
Cloudless Sulphur     Phoebis sennae     Adult     2
Gray Hairstreak     Strymon melinus     Adult     1
Red-banded Hairstreak     Calycopis cecrops     Adult     2
Eastern Tailed-Blue     Everes comyntas     Adult     Superabundant
‘Summer’ Spring Azure     Celastrina ladon neglecta     Adult     2
Variegated Fritillary     Euptoieta claudia     Adult     Abundant
Pearl Crescent     Phyciodes tharos     Adult     Superabundant
American Lady     Vanessa virginiensis     Adult     2
Red Admiral     Vanessa atalanta     Adult     5
Common Buckeye     Junonia coenia     Adult     Superabundant
Red-spotted Purple     Limenitis arthemis astyanax     Adult     4
Viceroy     Limenitis archippus     Adult     4
Common Wood-Nymph     Cercyonis pegala     Adult     2
Monarch     Danaus plexippus     Adult     Superabundant (300+)
Silver-spotted Skipper     Epargyreus clarus     Adult     Superabundant
Common Checkered-Skipper     Pyrgus communis     Adult
Least Skipper     Ancyloxypha numitor     Adult     2
Fiery Skipper     Hylephila phyleus     Adult     4
Peck’s Skipper     Polites peckius     Adult     2
Sachem     Atalopedes campestris     Adult     13
Broad-winged Skipper     Poanes viator     Adult     22

 

Leonard’s Skipper at Soldiers Delight

Beth Johnson captured this (probably female) Leonard's skipper (right, compared with sachem on the left) on liatris today

Participants in the serpentine barrens field trip led by Dick Smith today scored big time with up to a dozen (seen collectively by members of the party)  Leonard’s skippers nectaring on liatris on the east side of the barrens.

Field trip participants gather outside the visitor center before setting off

Dick started us all out (about 20 folks showed up) at the Visitor Center with a short introduction to some of the common — and not so common — butterflies through the season at Soldiers Delight west of Baltimore, one of the largest and most intact serpentine barrens in the East.  In addition to a very unusual flora, Soldiers Delight also serves as home to a number of very interesting butterflies, among them dusted skipper, hobomok skipper, and today’s target species, Leonard’s skipper.

Most of today’s action was on the liatris in bloom at various open sites along the serpentine trail and again near the chromide mines near the road.  Sachems were abundant, and swarthy skippers were quite common on the stunted liatris that characterizes the open grasslands of Soldiers Delight.  Sulphers and whites were almost non-existent, while buckeyes were quite common to abundant and several of the local swallowtail species put in appearances.

Dick leads the group single file through the barrens

But the lep highlight of the day had to be Leonard’s skipper, nowhere abundant but rewarding patient watchers who scanned stands of liatris with brief looks as they darted quickly from flower to flower and back into the grass.  The group was strung out over a good distance, and from what I could gather back at the parking lot there were at least five or six Leonard’s in addition to the six that I tallied  seen by various members of the team.

And they were beautiful — a life butterfly for me (and #72 on my 2010 DelMarVa list).  The ground color of these fresh individuals resembled a newly minted penny, and the underside underwing spots were bright yellow (not the whitish-creamy color of the illustration in Cech).  They were unmistakable, although their frenetic behavior gave the photographers among us fits, but Beth Johnson persevered to get the great photo at the top of this post.

My list (although I didn’t see some things others did, and I saw some things others didn’t), is appended.  Format follows the NABA BIS field trip form where c=common and a=abundant.

-==| Field Trip |==-

Date: 09/05/2010
Number of Species: 22
Number of Individuals: 196
Location:
Soldiers Delight Natural Environment Area
MD , USA   21117
Notes: Serpentine barrens butterfly trip led by Dick Smith.  Bright sunshine, warm (upper 70s).  In the field from approximately 13:45 – 16:30 hours.  Nectar sources included liatris, various eupatorium, and thistle.  Low humidity, very dry.

-==| List of Sightings for this Field Trip |==-
Common Name     Scientific Name Life Stage      Number Seen     Notes
Pipevine Swallowtail    Battus philenor Adult   1       exceptionally tattered
Black Swallowtail       Papilio polyxenes       Adult   2
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail       Papilio glaucus Adult   5
Spicebush Swallowtail   Papilio troilus Adult   3
Orange Sulphur  Colias eurytheme        Adult   1
American Copper Lycaena phlaeas Adult   1
Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus Adult   4
Eastern Tailed-Blue     Everes comyntas Adult   C
Variegated Fritillary   Euptoieta claudia       Adult   3
Great Spangled Fritillary       Speyeria cybele Adult   2
Common Buckeye  Junonia coenia  Adult   A
Red-spotted Purple      Limenitis arthemis astyanax     Adult   1
Common Wood-Nymph       Cercyonis pegala        Adult   2
Monarch Danaus plexippus        Adult   3
Swarthy Skipper Nastra lherminier       Adult   7
Least Skipper   Ancyloxypha numitor     Adult   2
Leonard’s Skipper       Hesperia leonardus      Adult   6
Peck’s Skipper  Polites peckius Adult   C
Tawny-edged Skipper     Polites themistocles    Adult   1
Crossline Skipper       Polites origenes        Adult   1
Little Glassywing       Pompeius verna  Adult   1
Sachem  Atalopedes campestris   Adult   A

 

Soldiers Delight LepTalk and LepWalk

Serpentine Barrens Butterflies

Soldiers Delight, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010

1:00-4:00 p.m.

Soldiers Delight natural area in Owings Mills MD will be the location for a slide presentation and hike this Sunday.  The talk, starting at 1:00 p.m. and taking about 20 minutes, will be held at the Soldiers Delight Visitor’s Center on Deer Park Rd. in Owings  Mills, MD. A one to two mile hike to look for barrens butterflies will  follow the talk. Several Leonard’s Skipper butterflies are usually seen at the barrens during this regular late summer program. More on the Soldiers  Delight Serpentine Barrens (located in western Baltimore County, MD) and its birds, wildflowers, and butterflies can be found at http://home.comcast.net/~soldiersdelight/sdci_heritage.html#4%20.

The talk is free of charge; Soldiers Delight is public and managed under the Maryland State Park system.  However, it is a special natural environment area with several studies going on there and requiring ongoing extra procedures to protect the habitat from invasive trees and vines, so they do gladly accept donations at the Visitor’s Center desk.

Thanks to Dick Smith for the heads-up on this event!

 

Lake Artemesia LepTrek

The assembled gang about to head out on the LepTrek (me behind the camera)

Here’s the gang for today’s LepTrek to Lake Artemesia in College Park, PG Co.  Perfect weather — sunny and warm but not too hot  And a lot of good nectar sources.  From left:  Missy, Eric, Beth, Jane, Lynnete, Dave, and Scott.  I’m holding the camera.

Most of the action was around the planted hedges of glossy abelia on the left side of the lake, which held large numbers of sachem, Eastern tiger swallowtails (including some dark forms), various sulphurs including sleepy orange, and the occasional monarch.  The abelia also yielded most of the day’s count of crossline skippers, as well as a number of Peck’s.  We picked up zabulon skipper several times on the eastern side of the lake complex.

Beth Johnson snapped this one so I could get into the picture!

Dipped, unfortunately, on the broad-winged skippers, even though a good bit of pickerel weed was in flower.  One of the most interesting sights of the day was an intermediate form of female Eastern tiger swallowtail — halfway between light and dark forms.

Intermediate dark form snapped by Beth Johnson

The list below is our take for the day (although we were frequently split up so not everyone saw the same species).  Abbreviations follow the NABA convention of s=superabundant, a=abundant, c=common.
-==| Field Trip |==-

Date: 08/28/2010
Number of Species: 25
Number of Individuals: 398
Location:
Lake Artemesia, College Park
MD , USA   20740
Notes: Warm (mid-80′s) and sunny, in the field 10 am to 1:30 pm.  Circle route around the full lake camplex. Abundant nectar sources included swamp milkweed, Mikania, porcelain berry, pickerel weed, and various composites and peas.

-==| List of Sightings for this Field Trip |==-
Common Name     Scientific Name Life Stage      Number Seen     Notes
Black Swallowtail       Papilio polyxenes       Adult   1
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail       Papilio glaucus Adult   A
Spicebush Swallowtail   Papilio troilus Adult   3
Cabbage White   Pieris rapae    Adult   3
Clouded Sulphur Colias philodice        Adult   5
Orange Sulphur  Colias eurytheme        Adult   13
Cloudless Sulphur       Phoebis sennae  Adult   1
Sleepy Orange   Eurema nicippe  Adult   2
Eastern Tailed-Blue     Everes comyntas Adult   C
‘Summer’ Spring Azure   Celastrina ladon neglecta       Adult   1
Pearl Crescent  Phyciodes tharos        Adult   A
Eastern Comma   Polygonia comma Adult   1
Painted Lady    Vanessa cardui  Adult   1
Red Admiral     Vanessa atalanta        Adult   1
Common Buckeye  Junonia coenia  Adult   A
Red-spotted Purple      Limenitis arthemis astyanax     Adult   4
Viceroy Limenitis archippus     Adult   4
Monarch Danaus plexippus        Adult   17
Silver-spotted Skipper  Epargyreus clarus       Adult   A
Least Skipper   Ancyloxypha numitor     Adult   A
Peck’s Skipper  Polites peckius Adult   C
Tawny-edged Skipper     Polites themistocles    Adult   1
Crossline Skipper       Polites origenes        Adult   4
Little Glassywing       Pompeius verna  Adult   1
Zabulon Skipper Poanes zabulon  Adult   5

 

LepTrek Saturday, 10 am, Lake Artemesia

The weather Saturday looks perfect for an impromptu LepTrek to Lake Artemesia, where Tom Stock in particular recently found a really nice diversity and high numbers of late-season butterflies. This informal butterfly walk will begin at 10 am in the Lake Artemesia parking lot (there is only one) and the troop will proceed around the lake counterclockwise (that is, beginning along the western shore with the abelia). We’ll finish up by 1 pm and folks are welcome to decamp with me after to a local eatery (probably Bagel Place in College Park but happy to take alternate suggestions at the time). Should be continuing good nectar sources available, with goldenrod coming on as well the swamp milkweed, passionflower, pickerel weed, abelia, clovers, and various composites. (Note: Birders might want to come early and bird the lake first using the Luther Goldman birding trail, recently written up in collegepark.patch.com: http://collegepark.patch.com/articles/trail-heads-birds-of-a-feather-walk-lake-artemesia-together.

For those who don’t know it, Lake Artemesia is an artificial lake area managed by MNCPPC that was created as soil was removed for construction of Greenbelt Metro. It adjoins the confluence of Paint Branch and Indian Creek. It also happens to be one of the very best butterfly spots inside the Beltway.

DIRECTIONS TO LAKE ARTEMESIA: From the Capital Beltway (I-95), take Kenilworth Avenue (Rte. 201) south and inside the Capital Beltway for 0.5 mile. Turn right on Greenbelt Road (Rte 193) following it 0.75 miles. Turn right on Branchville Rd. after Beltway Plaza (see sign for Lake Artemesia) following it for 0.7 miles. The road will bear left and left again crossing under Greenbelt Road where it changes its name to Balew Avenue. Just after the stop sign at Berwyn Road, turn left into the parking lot for Lake Artemesia. The lake, not visible from the parking lot, is about two blocks further down Balew Avenue. Look for the black Prius with RNGRIK plates.

An RSVP would be appreciated but not strictly necessary, but if the weather turns dicey or there’s any other problem I’ll post a cancellation note to LepLog (www.leplog.wordpress.com) and email anyone who has expressed an interest.

 

Northern Pearly-eye at Monocacy NRMA

After finishing up just before the gates closed at 5:30 at Lilypons, I headed down the road to the bridge over the Monocacy River on Rt 28 and the trailhead for a number of paths through the Monocacy Natural Resources Management Area near Dickerson.

Monocacy NRMA trailhead at Route 28

It was already getting pretty dim on the trail, which is mostly heavily shaded, by the time I got on the trail at 6 pm.  But I quickly spotted first one, then a dogfight of three or four, Northern pearly-eyes — quite fresh, very dark, and with impressively large eyespots.  All the pearly-eyes I saw (8 total) were in the first quarter mile or so of the trail.

In most places, the trail is single-file and crowded on both sides with the introduced invasive Japanese stiltgrass, Microstegium vimineum.  Two females farthest down the trail were both fluttering mothlike in the gathering twilight in the stiltgrass, and I watched both oviposit multiple times on the wide blades.  Most of the eggs were in clusters; the one I examined most closely was a cluster of four, greenish eggs laid singly but touching each other on the underside of the leaf.

Similar behavior has been noticed before along the Potomac by Robert Robbins.

There are a number of glades and clearings father down the trail that deserve a good look in the middle of the day when it’s sunny along the trail; I expect to head back soon.

 

Lilypons Water Gardens

Well, I had every intention of going on one of the Loudon County counts today, but given that the folks there didn’t send any information or coordinates out until less than 24 hours before the count started and I didn’t see the email until it was too late to get there this morning, I had to figure out alternatives.  Which consisted first of going back to bed, and then planning the day when I got up again.

First stop was Audubon Naturalist Society in Chevy Chase to take advantage of the August bird sale (20% off for members).  Full stocked up with sunflower chips and mixed seed, and finding myself already in Montgomery Co near I-270, I decided to head up to Lilypons Water Garden in hopes of seeing the fiery skippers that Denise Gibbs posted about on VA-MD-DE-Bugs last week:

>>7/30 Lilypons water gardens near Buckeystown, MD:
Unfortunately, the owners had nuked all the native vegetation around the
ponds, but they missed a few spots with New York ironweed and swamp
milkweed. The milkweed plants were magnets for many butterfly species but in
particular there were about a dozen monarchs (the most I have seen in
any one spot this season).  The owners also bulldozed some of the trails between the ponds, leaving lots of good muddy spots, which were loaded with eastern tailed blues, common checkered skippers and pearl crescents. Fiery skippers were also
abundant and nectaring on the NY ironweed.<<

I got to Lilypons around 2:30, and everyone knows what an incredibly gorgeous day it was here in the DC area:  sunny and warm but not too hot, a light breeze and low humidity.  And lots was in bloom at Lilypons this week, although I found the ironweed almost devoid of of butterflies.  The blue spikes of pickerel weed were pretty productive, though, and I picked up tawny skippers and a number of other common species pretty quickly.  But I must have examined every ironweed and swamp milkweed and mint plant for an hour without seeing a single fiery skipper.  Great habitat, though:

Ironweed, mint and prunella made this a likely spot for fiery skippers

Then I spotted my first fiery — nowhere near a nectar plant.  It was a male, as was the only other fiery I saw today (also at Lilypons), but they were patrolling away along the pathways instead of nectaring.  May have been late enough in the day they had finished nectaring and were settling down to the business of finding mates.

Nothing truly exciting (the fiery skippers were for me because they were a first of the year species for the DelMarVa Butterfly Big Year), but a good diversity nonetheless.  The common checkered-skippers were quite common, but pearl crescents and common buckeyes were superabundant.

The Monocacy was quite low, and huge carp were wallowing in the shallows exploring the mud flats for food.  Their long bronze backs were sticking out of the shallow water while they rooted around in the mud.

The list for Lilypons today (where c=common, 5-10; abundant, 10-100; superabundant >100):
-==| Field Trip |==-

Date: 08/07/2010
Number of Species: 22
Number of Individuals: 433
Location:
Lilypons Water Garden
MD , USA   21710
Notes: In the field from 2:30 pm to 5:00 pm; sunny and warm (mid-80′s F.).  Walked around most of the impoundments and along the Monocacy River.  Light breeze, low humidity.  Principal nectar sources included ironweed, swamp milkweed, mint, teasel, clover, pickerel weed, and frogfruit (Lippia).

-==| List of Sightings for this Field Trip |==-
Common Name     Scientific Name Life Stage      Number Seen     Notes
Zebra Swallowtail       Eurytides marcellus     Adult   1       very worn; nectaring teasel
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail       Papilio glaucus Adult   C       only yellow morphs
Spicebush Swallowtail   Papilio troilus Adult   2
Clouded Sulphur Colias philodice        Adult   5
Orange Sulphur  Colias eurytheme        Adult   4
Little Yellow   Eurema lisa     Adult   3
Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus Adult   1
Eastern Tailed-Blue     Everes comyntas Adult   C
Variegated Fritillary   Euptoieta claudia       Adult   3
Pearl Crescent  Phyciodes tharos        Adult   S
Red Admiral     Vanessa atalanta        Adult   2
Common Buckeye  Junonia coenia  Adult   A
Red-spotted Admiral     Limenitis arthemis      Adult   2
Viceroy Limenitis archippus     Adult   2
Monarch Danaus plexippus        Adult   5
Silver-spotted Skipper  Epargyreus clarus       Adult   A
Horace’s Duskywing      Erynnis horatius        Adult   C
Common Checkered-Skipper        Pyrgus communis Adult   C
Least Skipper   Ancyloxypha numitor     Adult   C
Fiery Skipper   Hylephila phyleus       Adult   2
Tawny-edged Skipper     Polites themistocles    Adult   5
Zabulon Skipper Poanes zabulon  Adult   1