August 2009 Sightings

Painted Lady: zinnias; Silver-spotted Skipper: red clover; Common Sootywing: on rotting cut grass; Peck's Skipper: red clover & zinnias; Tawny-edged Skipper: red cloer; Sachem: red clover & zinnias

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: plus a roadkill on the shoulder; Cloudless Sulphur: near Rte. 83 and Rte. 9; Red Admiral: crossed highway / fresh; Delaware Skipper: nectaring on Water Willow

Monarch: nectaring on a Butterfly Bush

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: nectaring on Sweet Pepperbush; Question Mark: near rotting tomatoes; Painted Lady: nectaring on Zinnias; Zabulon Skipper: one female

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: nectaring on Butterfly Bush; Variegated Fritillary: fresh ones!; American Lady: nectaring on Butterfly Bush

Black Swallowtail: two males and a female; Monarch: stopping at Butterfly Bushes and then moving southward on the Townsends Inlet

Red-banded Hairstreak: nectaring on mountain mint; Common Buckeye: nectaring on Buddleia; Zabulon Skipper: 4 males 1 female

male and female

Zabulon Skipper: male and female

Variegated Fritillary: fresh one; Salt Marsh Skipper: surprised to see

'Summer' Spring Azure: see more of this species later in the day; Hayhurst's Scallopwing: nectaring on Water Willow; Zabulon Skipper: territorial males

Painted Lady: good to see this sp. two days in a row

Spicebush Swallowtail: worn; Crossline Skipper: worn; Sachem: worn; Zabulon Skipper: male and female

Question Mark: All right together and all the summer brood/

American Snout: nectaring on the Mountain Mint

Silver-spotted Skipper: nectaring on Water Willow and Sweet Pepperbush; Zabulon Skipper: all males / nectaring on Water Willow

Black Swallowtail: 2 males and a female; Monarch: nectaring on Butterfly Bush