May 2009 Sightings

Zabulon Skipper: 3 males, 2 females

Frosted Elfin: egg laying on Wild Indigo / didn't survey their whole area; Eastern Pine Elfin: very worn female egg laying on young pine (2 feet tall); Red-banded Hairstreak: nectaring on Dewberry Blossoms; Question Mark: a summer form one; Viceroy: all males on territory; Little Wood-Satyr: possibly nectaring on Multiflora Rose (2 individuals); Wild Indigo Duskywing: female egg laying on Wild Indigo; Cobweb Skipper: a tattered female / one of the last for the season; Sachem: nectaring on Dewberry blossoms and Multiflora Rose

Sulphur sp.: white female

Zabulon Skipper: a male on territory; Aaron's Skipper: species # 51 / digital image

driving home from FPP

driving home from FPP

Red-spotted Purple: feeding on dead tutrle

driving to FPP

checking out Silky Dogwood, C. amomun, which sp. has used as foodplant in past

Mourning Cloak: displaying nicely; Hackberry Emperor: 1 month early for me, nectaring on Oak sap

Holly Azure: worn, checking out Inkberry

Zabulon Skipper: On a cucumber leaf

Black Swallowtail: 2 females and 6 males (some hilltopping on sand dunes); Orange Sulphur: 3 yellow form females and a white form female (all Orange Sulphurs egg laying); 'Summer' Spring Azure: nectaring on Dewberry blossoms (digital images); Pearl Crescent: a worn female; American Lady: very fresh; Monarch: first fresh out of chrysalis one for us; Least Skipper: nectaring on White Sweet Clover, Dandelion, Blue Toadflax and Yellow Wood Sorrel; Sachem: nectaring on White Sweet Clover

decent condition

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: nectaring on Multiflora Rose; Zabulon Skipper: a territorial male