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Butterfly walks in Berks County - 2012 Return to Berks County Nature Go to Lancaster Butterfly Sightings |
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Butterfly walks in Berks County - 2012 Return to Berks County Nature Go to Lancaster Butterfly Sightings |
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dates have been seen in Berks County, Pennsylvania this year. There are
records of 108 species for Berks County. The list below includes all those
reported from 2003 through 2011, a total of 91. New species (not seen during
2003 - 2011) will be added in red.
No new species were added in 2011.
Again this year we are recording the first sighting for each month in order to have data over the season. We have also added a last date for the year. If you have a later report than the "Last" date posted, please send it to the email below. Contributors to this year's sightings are: Mike Slater, Paul Michaly, Gary Freed, Rudy Keller, Katrina Knight, Ken Lebo, Jan Slater, Robert Noll, Tony Schock, Joan Silagy, Ryan Woolwine, Tom Raub, Laurie Goodrich, Jay Drasher, Frank Di Stefano, Carol Polarine, and Karl Gardner. If you have a reliable sighting not on this list
for 2012, please send an email to |
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The day of the first sighting is listed for each month plus the last date for the year. |
| Family HESPERIIDAE | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Last | |
| 1 | Silver-spotted Skipper | 17 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Sep 28 | ||
| 2 | Long-tailed Skipper | 11 | 9 | 1 | Oct 5 | |||||
| 3 | Hoary-edged Skipper | 1 | ||||||||
| 4 | Northern Cloudywing | |||||||||
| 5 | Dreamy Duskywing | 5 | ||||||||
| 6 | Sleepy Duskywing | 7 | ||||||||
| 7 | Juvenal's Duskywing | 7 | 4 | |||||||
| 8 | Horace's Duskywing | 7 | 5 | 11 | 6 | |||||
| 9 | Wild Indigo Duskywing | 27 | 3 | 23 | 1 | 4 | 1 | |||
| 10 | Checkered Skipper | 7 | 7 | 11 | 1 | 5 | Oct 5 | |||
| 11 | Common Sootywing | 4 | 4 | |||||||
| 12 | Swarthy Skipper | 2 | 7 | 11 | 7 | |||||
| 13 | Least Skipper | 9 | 5 | 4 | 1 | |||||
| 14 | European Skipper | 15 | ||||||||
| 15 | Fiery Skipper | 5 | 1 | 10-3 | Oct 5 | |||||
| 16 | Leonard's Skipper | 14 | ||||||||
| 17 | Cobweb Skipper | |||||||||
| 18 | Indian Skipper | |||||||||
| 19 | Peck's Skipper | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| 20 | Tawny-edged Skipper | 13 | 15 | 14 | 4 | 1 | ||||
| 21 | Crossline Skipper | 15 | 12 | |||||||
| 22 | Long Dash | 2 | ||||||||
| 23 | Northern Broken Dash | 6 | 2 | |||||||
| 24 | Little Glassywing | 11 | 1 | 14 | ||||||
| 25 | Sachem | 30 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | Oct 6 | |||
| 26 | Delaware Skipper | 1 | ||||||||
| 27 | Mulberry Wing | |||||||||
| 28 | Hobomok Skipper | 9 | 11 | |||||||
| 29 | Zabulon Skipper | 4 | 1 | 16 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 30 | Broad-winged Skipper | 4 | 4 | |||||||
| 31 | Black Dash | |||||||||
| 32 | Dun Skipper | 18 | 9 | 4 | 1 | |||||
| 33 | Dusted Skipper | |||||||||
| 34 | Ocola Skipper | |||||||||
| Family PAPILIONIDAE | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Last | |
| 35 | Pipevine Swallowtail | 7 | 24 | 1 | 4 | 1 | ||||
| 36 | Zebra Swallowtail | 24 | 8 | 1 | ||||||
| 37 | Black Swallowtail | 28 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 1 | ||
| 38 | Giant Swallowtail | 19 | 15 | 4 | ||||||
| 39 | Tiger Swallowtail | 2 | 5 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Oct 6 | |
| 40 | Spicebush Swallowtail | 4 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 41 | Palamedes Swallowtail | |||||||||
| Family PIERIDAE | ||||||||||
| 42 | Cabbage Butterfly = Cabbage White Feb. 27 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 43 | Clouded Sulphur | 23 | 2 | 15 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 44 | Orange Sulphur Jan 1, 6 , 7, 10, 31, Feb 1, etc. | 7 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Dec 12 |
| 45 | Cloudless Sulphur | 5 | 9 | 4 | 1 | Sep 10 | ||||
| 46 | Little Yellow | 23 | 25 | 7 | Sep 26 | |||||
| 47 | Sleepy Orange | 15 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Family LYCAENIDAE | ||||||||||
| 48 | Harvester | 30 | ||||||||
| 49 | American Copper | 8 | 5 | 11 | ||||||
| 50 | Coral Hairstreak | 7 | ||||||||
| 51 | Edward's Hairstreak | |||||||||
| 52 | Banded Hairstreak | 31 | 8 | 1 | ||||||
| 53 | Striped Hairstreak | 14 | ||||||||
| 54 | Red-banded Hairstreak | 7 | 4 | 21 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 55 | Juniper Hairstreak | 8 | ||||||||
| 56 | Brown Elfin | 7 | 5 | |||||||
| 57 | Pine Elfin | 7 | ||||||||
| 58 | White-m Hairstreak | 19 | 3 | 7 | ||||||
| 59 | Gray Hairstreak | 23 | 11 | 10 | ||||||
| 60 | Eastern Tailed Blue | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | Oct 5 | |
| 61 | Spring Azure | 25 | 3 | 23 | ||||||
| 62 | Northern Spring Azure | 20 | ||||||||
| 63 | Summer Azure | 14 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | Sep 13 | |||
| 64 | Appalachian Azure | |||||||||
| Family NYMPHALIDAE
Subfamily LIBYTHEINAE |
Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Last | |
| 65 | Snout Butterfly | 20 | 19 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||||
| Subfamily HELICONIINAE | ||||||||||
| 66 | Variegated Fritillary | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| 67 | Great Spangled Fritillary | 28 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 68 | Aphrodite | 7 | ||||||||
| 69 | Meadow Fritillary | 7 | 7 | 3 | 7 | |||||
| Subfamily NYMPHALINAE | ||||||||||
| 70 | Pearl Crescent | 3 | 9 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Oct 5 | |
| 71 | Baltimore | 7 | ||||||||
| 72 | Question Mark | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 1 | |||
| 73 | Comma | 14 | 5 | 1 | 4 | |||||
| 74 | Gray Comma | 14 | 5 | |||||||
| 75 | Compton's Tortoiseshell | |||||||||
| 76 | Mourning Cloak Feb 1 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | ||
| 77 | Milbert's Tortoiseshell | |||||||||
| 78 | American Painted Lady | 24 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 16 | 7 | 1 | ||
| 79 | Painted Lady | 16 | 12 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 80 | Red Admiral | 9 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 1 | Nov 19 | |
| 81 | Buckeye | 25 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | Oct 6 | ||
| 82 | Red-spotted Purple | 12 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Oct 6 | ||
| 83 | Viceroy | 7 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Subfamily APATURINAE | ||||||||||
| 84 | Hackberry Butterfly | 27 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| 85 | Tawny Emperor | 17 | 4 | |||||||
| Subfamily SATYRINAE | ||||||||||
| 86 | Northern Pearly Eye | 26 | 2 | |||||||
| 87 | Appalachian (Eyed) Brown | 20 | ||||||||
| 88 | Little Wood Satyr | 13 | 2 | 5 | ||||||
| 89 | Common Ringlet | |||||||||
| 90 | Common Wood Nymph | 5 | ||||||||
| Subfamily DANAINAE | ||||||||||
| 91 | Monarch | 15 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Oct 3 | ||
| Monthly Totals | - | |||||||||
| January = 1, February = 3, | 9 | 32 | 33 | 40 | 59 | 51 | 42 | 24 |
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| Contributors to this year's sightings are: Mike Slater, Paul Michaly, Gary Freed, Rudy Keller, Katrina Knight, Ken Lebo, Jan Slater, Robert Noll, Tony Schock, Joan Silagy, Ryan Woolwine, Tom Raub, Laurie Goodrich, Jay Drasher, Frank Di Stefano, Carol Polarine, and Karl Gardner. |
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A site with data on butterfly distributions by county (and photographs) for North America can be found at Butterflies and Moths of NA. (http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/) There is a small informal group of local butterfly
collectors/observers in Berks Co., Pennsylvania If you are interested in
butterflies and would like to meet this group, contact |
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If you are not sure and have a photograph, send it also.
We appreciate
your help.