MBC October Butterfly Derby - Week 1

The Massachusetts Butterfly Club is hosting an "October Derby".   One of the members will keep track of all the reported sightings, by species, and provide a count at the end of the month.  Since the club is only tracking data at the club level, I thought I'd keep my own records here.  (copy of club records seen through 10/6 can be found at the bottom of post)

Personal Species Total through 10/5:  11

Saturday 10/6

Marblehead, MA
Cabbage White - 3
Fiery Skipper - 6
Monarch - 9
Orange Sulphur - 2
Painted Lady -  3

Orange Sulphur

Lynn, MA
Monarch - 2

Ashland, MA
Monarch - 1
Red Admiral - 1

Friday 10/5

Ashland, MA
American Lady - 1
Cabbage White - 5
Monarch - 1
Ocola Skipper - 1 *
Painted Lady - 1
Red Admiral - 2
Mourning Cloak - 2 *

Mourning Cloak

Hopkinton, MA
American Lady - 1 *
Cabbage White - 20+
Fiery Skipper - 1
Great Spangled Fritillary - 1 *  (This was my only species contribution to the club records)
Monarch - 1
Orange Sulphur - 1 *
Painted Lady - 2
Red Admiral - 1 *

Thursday 10/4

  no butterflies - rainy/foggy

Wednesday 10/3

  no butterflies - rainy/foggy

Tuesday 10/2

Ashland, MA

Monarch - 4

Cabbage White - 5

Hopkinton, MA

Monarch - 4

Cabbage White - 20+

Fiery Skipper - 2 *

Painted Lady - 2 *

Hummingbird Moth - 1

Painted Lady

Monday 10/1

Ashland, MA
Monarch - 1 *
Cabbage White - 1 *
Peck's Skipper - 1 *

Monarch

MBC's club records through 10/6:

October 2012 Sightings

[Through October 06]

Massachusetts Butterfly Club

Composite Listing [40 Species]

American Copper

American Lady

Aphrodite Fritillary

Black Swallowtail

Bronze Copper

Cabbage White *

Clouded Sulphur

Cloudless Sulphur

Common Buckeye

Common Checkered Skipper

Common Ringlet

Eastern Comma

Eastern Tailed Blue

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Fiery Skipper *

Giant Swallowtail [Larva]

Gray Hairstreak

Great Spangled Fritillary * (my measly contribution)

Horace’s Duskywing

Least Skipper

Little Yellow

Long-Tailed Skipper

Monarch *

Mourning Cloak *

Ocola Skipper *

Orange Sulphur *

Painted Lady *

Pearl Crescent

Peck’s Skipper *

Question Mark

Red Admiral *

Sachem

Silver-Bordered Fritillary

Silver-Spotted Skipper

Spicebush Swallowtail

Tawny-Edged Skipper

Variegated Fritillary

Viceroy

White M Hairstreak

Zabulon Skipper