Sighting for June 4, 2012
Glenn Koppel and Mary Alice Koeneke
Judge Rye Road
Shenandoah County, VA
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 8
- Spicebush Swallowtail 4
- Cabbage White superabundant
- Clouded Sulphur abundant
- Orange Sulphur abundant
- Eastern Tailed-Blue abundant
- Spring Azure common
- Appalachian Azure 1
- Great Spangled Fritillary 1
- Mourning Cloak 1
- American Lady 7
- Red-spotted Purple 1
- Little Wood-Satyr superabundant
- Silver-spotted Skipper 4
This is our count for the 4.8 mile section of Judge Rye Rd from the beginning to the W. VA. border. A good number of the butterflies were seen near the Long Mt. trail head and in the meadow just down the trail.