Sighting for September 5, 2020

David L. Amadio

Norfolk Botanical Garden
Norfolk city, VA

Obs. made from 10:10 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. Temp. range 78-82, part sun, winds N and NNE 10-21. Always a pleasure to tour this well designed & managed Botanical garden. E.Tigers include 3 dark form females.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 6
  • Black Swallowtail 20
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 11
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Palamedes Swallowtail 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 15
  • Sleepy Orange 10
  • Great Purple Hairstreak 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 7
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 8
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 15
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • American Lady 4
  • Painted Lady 3
  • Common Buckeye 19
  • Monarch 38
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 32
  • Long-tailed Skipper 7
  • Horace's Duskywing 10
  • Clouded Skipper 10
  • Fiery Skipper 66
  • Sachem 25
  • Broad-winged Skipper 1
  • Brazilian Skipper 5
  • Ocola Skipper 6

Brazilian Skipper

Great Purple Hairstreak

Variegated Fritillary

Great Purple Hairstreak

Pipevine Swallowtail

Clouded Skipper

Long-tailed Skipper

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Great Purple Hairstreak

Long-tailed Skipper

Pipevine Swallowtail