August 2009 Sightings

Cloudless Sulphur: digital images; American Copper: a female nectaring on goldenrod sp.; 'Summer' Spring Azure: a amle nectaring on goldenrod sp.

Spicebush Swallowtail: relishing the Butterfly Bushes

Gray Hairstreak: nectaring on goldenrod sp.; Red-banded Hairstreak: nectaring on goldenrod sp.; Monarch: a tiny Cat on a milkweed plant; Zabulon Skipper: 2 females

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6 PM coming home on bicycle

Cabbage White: red clover; Clouded Sulphur: red clover; Orange Sulphur: red clover; Eastern Tailed-Blue: white clover; Variegated Fritillary: zinnias; Pearl Crescent: white clover; Painted Lady: zinnias; Monarch: red clover; Silver-spotted Skipper: red clover; Common Checkered-Skipper: most very fresh, on white clover primarily, chicory, red clover; Least Skipper: red clover; Peck's Skipper: red clover; Tawny-edged Skipper: red clover; Sachem: red clover & zinnias

Red-banded Hairstreak: both on leaf litter; Red Admiral: well worn; Silver-spotted Skipper: nectaring mainly on hairy bush clover; Wild Indigo Duskywing: very fresh on hairy bush clover; Swarthy Skipper: on red clover; Peck's Skipper: on red clover; Zabulon Skipper: lone female; Broad-winged Skipper: including one in the grasp of a crab spyder

Gray Hairstreak: nectaring on goldenrod sp.; Question Mark: still the summer form

American Snout: very worn individual

Appalachian Brown: fresh out of the chrysalis!!

Red-banded Hairstreak: nectaring on Winged Sumac and a Eupatorium species; Eastern Tailed-Blue: a mated pair; Pearl Crescent: a mated pair; Common Buckeye: nectaring on Winged Sumac; Viceroy: males on territories; Silver-spotted Skipper: nectaring on Winged Sumac and a Eupatorium species; Southern Cloudywing: nectaring on goldenrod species; Zabulon Skipper: nectaring on Winged Sumac

Black Swallowtail: all but about 5 were males; Painted Lady: all fresh seen after 5 p.m.