August 2009 Sightings

All nectaring on my Sedum and Joe Pye Weed plants. 13 males, 3 females.

Silver-spotted Skipper: numbers low today, rain

Swarthy Skipper: found in tall grass meadow, mostly

Cabbage White: on purple loosestrife

American Lady: landed on my field notes / wrote it up while it sat there!; Red-spotted Purple: rag / on cherry trees; Horace's Duskywing: biggest one day total for the year!; Horace's Duskywing: nectaring on Chinese Bushy Clover; Swarthy Skipper: a female with very discernible spots / digital image / see Kaufman and Brock for context; Crossline Skipper: two basking females; Sachem: all females; Zabulon Skipper: one female

Eastern Comma: both summer form; Red-spotted Purple: fresh; Sachem: mostly on Buddleia; Zabulon Skipper: 3 males 2 females

Black Swallowtail: 7 males 1 female; Red-banded Hairstreak: all on goldenrod; Horace's Duskywing: worn female; Wild Indigo Duskywing: on white clover; Swarthy Skipper: both on goldenrod; Tawny-edged Skipper: on red clover; Sachem: mostly on goldenrod, the dominant nectar source at Supawna right now; Zabulon Skipper: 5 males 2 females; Broad-winged Skipper: on goldenrod and pickerel weed

male

on mountain mint

Hackberry Emperor: Sitting on Hackberry Tree?

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: dark form female

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: on pickerel weed; Hackberry Emperor: one landing on my shoulder; Silver-spotted Skipper: mostly on purple loosestrife

We seen 31 species today will enter only what has not been entered by Dave

Black Swallowtail: some of this habitat has now been mowed; Wild Indigo Duskywing: one mated pair

Spicebush Swallowtail: very worn; Monarch: Small larva on Aesclepias syriaca (common milkweed) probably 2nd instar

Red-spotted Purple: coming to fruit; Monarch: including 2 "in tandem," mating

Black Swallowtail: common on flowers; mostly males; Orange Sulphur: includes one white form; Cloudless Sulphur: at far end of dikes drive

Eastern Comma: very worn

With 6 females. They were all over the yard on all sorts of nectar plants.

Spicebush Swallowtail: worn male; Gray Hairstreak: fresh

'Summer' Spring Azure: Nectaring on sedum; Great Spangled Fritillary: mexican sunflower; Sachem: nectaring on sedum, zinnias