I was surprised at the diversity of butterflies that I saw at Newport Forest today in just a couple hours. I have included photos of all my dubious identifications, and welcome input as I am just learning many of the species. I have made tenuous guesses on a couple of species to start.
My list for today was pretty good:
- Monarch
- Eastern Tiger
- Swallowtail
Black Swallowtail
- Northern Crescent
- Orange Sulphur
- Cabbage White
- Clouded Sulphur
- Eastern Tailed Blue
- Wild Indigo Duskywing
- Fiery Skipper
- Variegated Fritillary
- Common Buckeye
- Inornate Ringlet
- Painted Lady
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| Variegated Fritillary |
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| Left to Right Clockwise: Common Buckeye, Eastern Tailed Blue, Painted Lady |
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| Fiery Skipper |
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| Wild Indigo Duskywing |
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From left to right clockwise: Northern Crecent, Wild Indigo Duskywing, Black Swallowtail, Clouded Sulphur, Inornate Ringlet, Variegated Fritallary
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| Little jumping spider |
Kee Dewdney has written a much more colourful report of this day that should soon be available at the following site: http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~akd/newport-forest/
2 comments:
Good finds! Maybe I should go there.
Fiery Skipper (common this year!--used to be rare)
Variegated Fritillary (uncommon in Ontario! --big colony at Joany's Woods this year)
Wild Indigo Duskywing (uncommon but increasing in Ontario and a good discovery there) --Juvenal's Duskywing only flies in May and early June around here.
Thanks for the help Blake!!
There is a gate at Newport since it is a Thames Talbot Land Trust closed conservation area.
The property was a gift to the Trust from Pat and Kee Dewdney. Kee visits the property on a regular basis and I bet would be glad to open it up for you to visit (especially after adding two new species to the ATBI - http://www.csd.uwo.ca/faculty/akd/newport-forest/ref/ATBI.pdf ). I can put you in contact if you like?
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