July 2011 Sightings

Black Swallowtail: a fresh male / a total of 17 sp. in the downtown CMCH Area this day!; American Lady: nectaring on Butterfly Bush; Common Wood-Nymph: hugging the shady areas; Silver-spotted Skipper: one nectaring on Sweet Pea; Horace's Duskywing: nectaring on Knapweed; Common Checkered-Skipper: a very fresh female; Sachem: 3 females and 2 males; Broad-winged Skipper: nectaring on Sweet Pea

Viceroy: very fresh; Wild Indigo Duskywing: fresh; Sachem: one a female

Bronze Copper: Feeding on red clover

Black Swallowtail: female, egg-laying on fennel; Gray Hairstreak: both very fresh; Sachem: female

both females

Common Wood-Nymph: on dish of gooey fruit

Sachem: 2 females; Broad-winged Skipper: plus one freshly killed by a spider

Sachem: nectaring on Marigolds; Salt Marsh Skipper: nectaring on Marigolds

Bronze Copper: nectaring on Button bush

White M Hairstreak: have photo egg laying on sweet peperbush a mixed cedar and hardwood swamp near the river.

Delaware Skipper: nectaring on Monarda

'Summer' Spring Azure: 2 males, 1 worn female; Georgia Satyr: fresh; Common Wood-Nymph: in various bogs, orange blotches; Silver-spotted Skipper: near road; Horace's Duskywing: fresh male; Wild Indigo Duskywing: 2 in bog, 1 near road

Orange Sulphur: nectaring primarily on Red clover; Bronze Copper: 2 on Canada thistle, 2 on dogbane, 1 basking on a leaf; Meadow Fritillary: Have digital images; Monarch: 1 fem laying eggs on Com.milkweed; Least Skipper: mostly on pickerel weed; Broad-winged Skipper: mostly on pickerel weed

Pipevine Swallowtail: most of original 33 have dispersed from vines; Black Swallowtail: nectaring on mimosa tree; Common Checkered-Skipper: a colony here? found same spot in 2006 and 2008 on this count

Wild Indigo Duskywing: on buddleia & lantana

Silver-spotted Skipper: all 7 species nectaring on the Butterfly Bush

Black Swallowtail: 3 females egg laying and a male nectaring on Mimosa Blossoms; Spicebush Swallowtail: a female egg laying on a young Sassafrass Tree; Orange Sulphur: last several days, I've recorded 25 butterfly species in CMCH / This has included Common Checkered-Skipper, Appalachian Brown and American Snout!; American Copper: nectaring on Butterfly Weed; Gray Hairstreak: nectaring on White Sweet Clover and Butterfly Weed; Eastern Tailed-Blue: nectaring on White Sweet Clover and Butterfly Weed; American Snout: hanging around a Hackberry Tree; Appalachian Brown: the habitat exists downtown in the forest; Silver-spotted Skipper: one was perched on a Lizard's Tail plant; Silver-spotted Skipper: on Honey Locust; Wild Indigo Duskywing: a fresh female nectaring on Knapweed; Duskywing sp.: can't id them all; Broad-winged Skipper: one nectaring on pink-flowering Sweet Pea

Tawny Emperor: a female

American Copper: All fresh looking and all along the start of the loop.; Hackberry Emperor: Each near a Hackberry Tree.; Little Wood-Satyr: Only 9 species today. No skippers!