Cole County, May 27

Hackberry emperor
Least skipper
Orange sulphur
Red admiral
Azure
Monarch
Monarch caterpillar
Little wood-satyr
Polygonia
Dainty sulphur
Gray hairstreak
Great spangled fritillary
Giant swallowtail
Spicebush swallowtail

Dun skipper
Zabulon skipper

Bird-dropping moth
Moon-lined moth
Geometrid

Eastern pondhawk
Green darner
Black saddlebags
Spangled skimmer
Common whitetail
Twelve-spotted skimmer
Blue dasher

Lestes
Bluet
Citrine forktail
Eastern forktail

Bee fly
Crane fly
Syrphid fly

Spittle bugs
Giant water bug

Six-spotted tiger beetle
Firefly
Checkered beetle

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Orange sulphur
Common buckeye
Azure
Dainty sulphur
Little wood-satyr
Polygonia sp.
Monarch

Twelve-spotted skimmer
Common whitetail
Green darner
Eastern pondhawk
Possible Comet darner
Forktail
Black saddlebags
Blue dasher
Widow skimmer
Spangled skimmer
Slaty skimmer
Gomphidae
Baskettail

Lixus
Click beetle
Firefly

Spittlebugs
Bee fly

I also saw a Brown Thrasher bring nestling droppings from the nest and drop them into a pond.

White-eyed vireo
Baltimore oriole
Eastern kingbird

Chipmunk

On Saturday, I saw a Brenthia in Boone County.


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I watched what I think was a Common Whitetail emerge just after noon on a somewhat cooler day than we've been having. I'll edit this post later to add details and a photo.

Sightings:
Red-banded hairstreak
Common whitetail
Backswimmers
Water striders
Fragile forktail
Eastern forktail
Springwater dancer?
Zabulon Skipper
Painted lady
Red admiral
Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle
Cucumber Beetle
Publilia concava with ants
Carpenter Bee
Syrphid








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Sightings

Citrine forktail
Green darner
Black saddlebags
Eastern forktail
Lestes
Baskettail
Common whitetail
springwater dancer
Blue corporal
Monarch
Question mark
Red hairstreak
Red-spotted purple
Painted lady
Red admiral
Peck's skipper
Juvenal's duskywing
Orange sulphur
Backswimmer
Giant water bug
Whirlygig beetles
Water striders
Ants & aphids
Six-spotted tiger beetle





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Taking photos of a female Pipevine Swallowtail laying eggs on the pipevines growing in our yard. Pipevines in bloom.


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