May 2009 Sightings

caterpillar on dill; plant purchased @ Popes Gardens, Winslow

Red-banded Hairstreak: fresh; American Lady: fresh

Juvenal's Duskywing: All worn, two photo'd from below for white dots

White M Hairstreak: extremely worn, barely could fly. photos; Cobweb Skipper: all worn; Sachem: fresh, both males and females

Orange Sulphur: a yellow form female; Eastern Tailed-Blue: a male; Common Sootywing: 3 fresh ones, a worn one, also

Zabulon Skipper: 2 males; 1 female

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: nectaring on Dewberry; American Copper: worn ones / nectaring on a dandelion; Frosted Elfin: laying eggs on Wild Indigo; Gray Hairstreak: a rag; Eastern Tailed-Blue: all males; Pearl Crescent: nectaring on Dewberry mainly; Viceroy: fresh one / very active; Silver-spotted Skipper: on territory / chasing dragonflies even; Southern Cloudywing: puddling; Northern Cloudywing: puddling; Juvenal's Duskywing: all very worn / all males on territory; Cobweb Skipper: 5 females, 16 males / all very worn; Sachem: a female; Zabulon Skipper: a male nectaring on Dewberry and Blue Toadflax; Dusted Skipper: avidly nectaring on Dewberry / very fresh males

Orange Sulphur: all yellow form females; Juniper Hairstreak: fresh one nectaring on Dewberry; Pearl Crescent: nectaring on Dewberry; American Lady: nectaring on Red Sweet Clover; Monarch: large and very worn and faded female laying eggs on milkweed; Silver-spotted Skipper: nectaring on Dewberry; Cobweb Skipper: nectaring on Dewberry; Zabulon Skipper: male on territory

Red-banded Hairstreak: nectaring on Dewberry; Eastern Tailed-Blue: 1female, 1 male; Pearl Crescent: nectaring on Oxeye Daisy; Sachem: nectaring on Dewberry and Multiflora Rose flowers; Zabulon Skipper: all territorial males

Spicebush Swallowtail: a male puddling; Falcate Orangetip: very late date for this species / new late flight record; Orange Sulphur: 2 yellow form females; Frosted Elfin: many females egg laying on the very tips of Wild Indigo branches; Henry's Elfin: getting late for this species; Juniper Hairstreak: one very worn one nectaring on Chokecherry blossoms; Eastern Tailed-Blue: mostly males; Pearl Crescent: mix of males and females; Viceroy: all 3 fresh!; Silver-spotted Skipper: perched on territory / pursuing dragonflies; Cobweb Skipper: old males and a fairly worn female; Sachem: variety time

investigating Hops

1/2 grown caterpillars on Swamp Milkweed

Juniper Hairstreak: fairly fresh one / 28 species for day / a skipper to enter yet -reviewing digital image; Southern Cloudywing: egg laying; Sleepy Duskywing: females; Juvenal's Duskywing: very worn; Tawny-edged Skipper: first of season / The Dun and Tawny-Edged Skippers were both new entries for the season - great observing. / The tawny is entry number 28 for a great day!!; Dun Skipper: fresh male - puddling. photo–>

Cobweb Skipper: Species #44 for this area

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: puddling; Frosted Elfin: egg laying on Wild Indigo branch tips; Eastern Pine Elfin: nectaring on Dewberry; Red-banded Hairstreak: in Black Cherry tree; Viceroy: fresh ones!; Little Wood-Satyr: in the shaded places; Sachem: a female

tiny caterpillars on Common Milkweed

Orange Sulphur: both yellow form females / egg laying; Frosted Elfin: egg laying; Juniper Hairstreak: territorial in Red Cedars; Common Buckeye: one a runt; Viceroy: all fresh; Cobweb Skipper: a male, a female

Male

Spicebush Swallowtail: Laying eggs