September 2011 Sightings

Red-banded Hairstreak: one nectaring on a blue-colored Mistflower; 'Summer' Spring Azure: a fresh one / puddling; Sachem: a conservative number for today - 381

Orange Sulphur: a 'yellow form' female; Red-spotted Purple: mint fresh; Horace's Duskywing: a fresh male; Least Skipper: nectaring on an ornamental Salvia sp. (purple); Fiery Skipper: one female

Black Swallowtail: 2 females; Black Swallowtail: one in the 'J' Shape

Common Buckeye: some nectaring on Sedum; Sachem: a few nectaring on Catmint and Lavender

Spicebush Swallowtail: mint fresh; Gray Hairstreak: worn; Question Mark: very worn 'Summer Form'; Silver-spotted Skipper: one was fresh; Hayhurst's Scallopwing: very dark and fresh!; Fiery Skipper: a female nectaring within a Butterfly Bush; Tawny-edged Skipper: a female; Zabulon Skipper: two were rags

Eastern Tailed-Blue: a fresh male / puddling

Spicebush Swallowtail: one in the grasp of crab spider; American Lady: 3 were fresh; Fiery Skipper: female; Aaron's Skipper: one on pickerel weed

Fiery Skipper: a male and a female

Red-banded Hairstreak: a rag nectaring on Sedum / digital image

Swallowtail sp.: appeared to be spicebush; Fiery Skipper: male

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Black Swallowtail: a fresh female egg laying on Fennel

Sachem: mostly on camphorweed

Gray Hairstreak: most on bush clover

American Lady: mint fresh

American Lady: very fresh

Viceroy: both HWs only half there / would fly up and drop toward ground time after time!; Fiery Skipper: males; Sachem: one nectaring on Joe Pye Weed