I checked out the North Schoolhouse Battlefield area near Harper’s Ferry yesterday at lunch time and saw 15 species in the parking lot gleening minerals. Large numbers of sulphurs and the second flight of Sachem has started (males only). Zebra Swallowtails are slos in their second flight. The highlight believe it or not was a Common Buckeye which were abundant in 2012 and then virtually non-existent last year in our area so it was good to find one. I’m sure there will be many more as the summer wears on. Also this week I found a FOY WV Viceroy at Altona Marsh and a Tawny Emperor at home.
* = New for West Virginia this year Silver-spotted Skipper 2 Wild Indigo Duskywing 3 Least Skipper 4 Sachem 9 Zebra Swallowtail 2 Black Swallowtail 2 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3 Cabbage White 4 Clouded Sulphur 7 Orange Sulphur 82 Eastern Tailed-Blue 6 Monarch 7 Great Spangled Fritillary 1 Pearl Crescent 15 *Common Buckeye 1 Question Mark 1 Eastern Comma 1 Painted Lady 1