September 2010 Sightings

Black Swallowtail: all males

Black Swallowtail: fresh male; Variegated Fritillary: very fresh; Red-spotted Purple: hanging out in a grape arbor; Common Sootywing: first one ever seen downtown CMCH / nectaring on Wood Sorrel

Black Swallowtail: a male; Eastern Tailed-Blue: nectaring on Buddleia

Sleepy Orange: a female egg laying on sennae plants; Fiery Skipper: a female

Black Swallowtail: a female

Little Yellow: a fresh bright-yellow male / This is my 64th sp. for my butterfly inventory at LT!; Gray Hairstreak: nectaring on Goldenrod sp., Eupatorium sp. and Bush Clover; Eastern Tailed-Blue: nectaring on Bush Clover; Viceroy: all territorial males

Red Admiral: fresh; Hackberry Emperor: one flew in my truck's window as I drove in; Monarch: watching 2 chrysalis

Black Swallowtail: a female; Gray Hairstreak: nectaring on Lantana and Water Willow

Monarch: mostly nectaring on Buddleia / a couple using Sedum

a female

Gray Hairstreak: one nectaring on Sedum; Red Admiral: one nectaring on Sedum; Zabulon Skipper: a male

still flapping on the road

Black Swallowtail: males; American Snout: fresh; Question Mark: on gooey dish of fruit and fallen pears in our woods; Red Admiral: on gooey dish of fruit and fallen pears in our woods; Red-spotted Purple: on gooey dish of fruit and fallen pears in our woods

'Summer' Spring Azure: puddling; Sachem: a female nectaring on Montauk Daisy

Cloudless Sulphur: 2 females / one all white; Red-banded Hairstreak: nectaring on Hyacinth Vine; 'Summer' Spring Azure: nectaring on Hyacinth Vine, Eupatorium sp. and Mountain Mint; Tawny Emperor: This was the 57th sp. for the butterfly inventory project at LR.; Silver-spotted Skipper: nectaring on Hyacinth Vine; Tawny-edged Skipper: a total rag; Zabulon Skipper: 7 males

Clouded Sulphur: a male