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Aug2

Ryan Brady
Location: Chequamegon National Forest southeast of Grand View
Bayfield County
Not many individuals but 26 species overall. Highlight was my first-ever SILVER-SPOTTED SKIPPER here in far northern Wisconsin (alas, no photo).

Cabbage White (1)
Clouded Sulphur (1)
Pink-edged Sulphur (1)
Banded Hairstreak (2)
Striped Hairstreak (1)
Spring Azure (1)
Great Spangled Fritillary (4)
Aphrodite Fritillary (2)
Atlantis Fritillary (7)
Meadow Fritillary (1)
Northern Crescent (5)
Baltimore Checkerspot (1)
Compton Tortoiseshell (7)
Mourning Cloak (3)
American Lady (1)
White Admiral (3)
Northern Pearly-eye (7)
Eyed Brown (1)
Common Wood-Nymph (10)
Monarch (3)
Silver-spotted Skipper (1)
Least Skipper (6)
European Skipper (1)
Peck’s Skipper (1)
Long Dash (7)
Dun Skipper (90)