June 2011 Sightings

Black Swallowtail: looking for egg laying places; Eastern Tailed-Blue: a rag female; Question Mark: a 'Summer Form'; Little Wood-Satyr: also, most likely got glimpes of an Applachian Brown / needed better look / a larger butterfly which flew the right way and was much larger; Swarthy Skipper: great digital images of a fresh one; Zabulon Skipper: a resting fresh female

Black Swallowtail: females looking for egg laying places; Frosted Elfin: nectaring on Dewberry; Eastern Tailed-Blue: a worn female; Question Mark: a 'Summer Form'; Common Buckeye: all on Linaria canadensis; Viceroy: on territory; Juvenal's Duskywing: all total rags; Horace's Duskywing: a worn female; Wild Indigo Duskywing: one a female nectaring on Dewberry; Sachem: a male

seeking egg laying places on Fennel

Zabulon Skipper: female nectaring on yellow lantana

a fresh Road Kill

a fresh Road Kill

on territory

Black Swallowtail: early instar cats on Fennel; Red-banded Hairstreak: 1 a complete rag; 'Summer' Spring Azure: on/around Silky Dogwood; Question Mark: Summer form at Hops; Least Skipper: on Catmint; Aaron's Skipper: on Catmint; Dun Skipper: on Catmint

Black Swallowtail: a male nectaring on Yellow Thistle

earlier in the day

Cabbage White: one nectaring on Dandelion; American Copper: nectaring on Rabbit-foot Clover; Red-banded Hairstreak: one at 6:33 am; Question Mark: a 'Summer Form'

both 'Summer Forms'

Black Swallowtail: one nectaring on Yellow Thistle; Gray Hairstreak: a couple nectaring on White Clover; 'Summer' Spring Azure: some nectaring on a Viburnum sp.; Pearl Crescent: a few nectaring on White Clover; Common Buckeye: one nectaring on a blue-flowering Cornflower; Zabulon Skipper: 4 territorial males

Question Mark: summer form; Red Admiral: fresh

Black Swallowtail: a female looking for egg laying places

Question Mark: nectaring on Yellow lantana & on ripened fruit; Red-spotted Purple: on watermelon rind