I visited the North Schoolhouse Ridge battlefield near Harper’s Ferry during a long lunch early this afternoon and found the fields were been cut. Too bad they can’t alternate plots and cut every other year. It would save resources and perhaps help the wildlife. I found eight species on the wing despite the stiff breeze. Things are winding down but I’m still hopeful we’ll get a couple of south wind days to bring up a Cloudless Sulphur or two into the eastern panhandle.
Common Checkered-Skipper 2 Sachem 7 Cabbage White 15 Clouded Sulphur 5 Orange Sulphur 34 Monarch 2 Variegated Fritillary 3 Common Buckeye 5