August 2011 Sightings

near Mimosa

Black Swallowtail: a male nectaring on Mimosa Blossoms; Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: a male nectaring on Mimosa Blossoms; Red-banded Hairstreak: one nectaring on Butterfly Weed; American Snout: near Hackberry Trees; Sachem: a female

Black Swallowtail: female; Question Mark: on dish of gooey fruit; Eastern Comma: on dish of gooey fruit

Black Swallowtail: female; Question Mark: on dish of gooey fruit; Red-spotted Purple: on dish of gooey fruit; Hackberry Emperor: on dish of gooey fruit; Appalachian Brown: on dish of gooey fruit; Common Wood-Nymph: on dish of gooey fruit

Pipevine Swallowtail: or more…early instars; Cabbage White: far fewer than two weeks ago; Red-banded Hairstreak: very fresh

Red-banded Hairstreak: both on mountain mint; Zabulon Skipper: all males

Pearl Crescent: nectaring on Water Willow; Red Admiral: nectaring on Water Willow; Common Buckeye: nectaring on Water Willow; Monarch: nectaring on Water Willow; Silver-spotted Skipper: nectaring on Water Willow; Sachem: a male; Zabulon Skipper: nectaring on Water Willow; Aaron's Skipper: nectaring on Water Willow; Broad-winged Skipper: nectaring on Water Willow

Red-banded Hairstreak: on Dogbane

Eastern Tailed-Blue: 1 large, very fresh; Monarch: About a dozen 1st instar cats on Swamp Mw; Zabulon Skipper: male; Aaron's Skipper: first of 2nd brood

Red-banded Hairstreak: one nectaring on Water Willow; Eastern Tailed-Blue: rags - both females; 'Summer' Spring Azure: one nectaring on a domestic pink-flowering Spirea sp.; American Lady: nectaring on Water Willow; Red Admiral: fresh; Silver-spotted Skipper: nectaeing on Water Willow and Sweet Pepperbush; Horace's Duskywing: a female nectaring on Black-eyed Susans; Little Glassywing: mint fresh; Sachem: 2 males nectaring on Black-eyed Susans and a female nectaring on Water Willow; Delaware Skipper: near a Butterfly Bush; Zabulon Skipper: 2 fresh females; Broad-winged Skipper: nectaring on Black-eyed Susans, Water Willow and Sweet Pepperbush; Salt Marsh Skipper: nectaring on Sweet Pepperbush

North side of road at beginning of trail that starts by the west guardrail (of the two on the road) and heads north into the Fishing Creek woods

first we've had in yard in weeks

Salt Marsh Skipper: A Total of 45 Butterfly Species / One is already entered (entry # 282) under Glen Davis and Tony Leukering - Hoary Edge.

Pipevine Swallowtail: quite tattered; Question Mark: extra large!

Question Mark: on dish of gooey fruit; Appalachian Brown: on dish of gooey fruit

Spicebush Swallowtail: nectaring on Mimosa Blossoms / one sipping rain drops from wet leaves; Eastern Tailed-Blue: fresh one; 'Summer' Spring Azure: nectaring on Sweet Pepperbush Blossoms; Pearl Crescent: one nectaring on Water Willow; Question Mark: a fresh 'Summer Form'; Common Buckeye: nectaring on Water Willow; Little Wood-Satyr: in the woods; Monarch: three nectaring on Water Willow; Fiery Skipper: a female nectaring on Water Willow Blossoms; Little Glassywing: one nectaring on Water Willow; Sachem: a female; Zabulon Skipper: all fresh males!

Zabulon Skipper: 1 male & 1 female

Question Mark: on dish of gooey fruit; Red-spotted Purple: on dish of gooey fruit; Hackberry Emperor: on dish of gooey fruit

Pipevine Swallowtail: Possibly 2, but didn't get a good look at the second.

Spicebush Swallowtail: one had three wing segments and it was nectaring on Purple Petunia / another nectaring on Red Clover; Gray Hairstreak: nectaring on Sedum; Red Admiral: nectaring on Water Willow; Monarch: nectaring on Swamp Milkweed; Fiery Skipper: a female nectaring on Water Willow; Sachem: 2 males and a female / males nectaring on Black-eyed Susans and female sipping nectar from Water Willow; Delaware Skipper: nectaring on Water Willow; Zabulon Skipper: 6 males and 2 females / a female was nectaring on Self Heal; Broad-winged Skipper: one nectaring on Sedum

fresh summer form

mint fresh male, plus about 15 good-sized cats

Spicebush Swallowtail: one nectaring on Swamp Milkweed; Pearl Crescent: nectaring on Water Willow; Question Mark: rag 'Summer Form'; Monarch: nectaring on Swamp Milkweed; Least Skipper: all fresh; Northern Broken-Dash: nectaring on Water Willow; Little Glassywing: fresh and nectaring on Water Willow; Sachem: one female; Zabulon Skipper: four females / one nectaring on Sweet Pepperbush and another on Water Willow