September 2011 Sightings

Black Swallowtail: a female and a male; Gray Hairstreak: found on Mountain Mint; Red-banded Hairstreak: one mint fresh; Horace's Duskywing: a male nectaring on Sedum; Tawny-edged Skipper: nectaring on Sedum; Sachem: two snared by Crab Spiders

Fiery Skipper: includes a mated pair (digital images)

Red-spotted Purple: on buddleia & Mexican sunflower; Sachem: male & female

Anglewing sp.: most likely, a QM / needed better look

Black Swallowtail: a male nectaring on Pilewort; Orange Sulphur: a 'yellow form' female; 'Summer' Spring Azure: one nectaring on Eupatorium sp.; Red Admiral: very fresh; Common Buckeye: all along the Dune System; Fiery Skipper: a female; Sachem: 3 females

Fiery Skipper: a male

Fiery Skipper: a female; Sachem: one female

Pearl Crescent: including one mated pair; Zabulon Skipper: male

Fiery Skipper: a male and a female; Sachem: includes a mated pair (digital images)

Cabbage White: a female nectaring on a Eupatorium sp.

Fiery Skipper: one female

Gray Hairstreak: nectaring on Garlic Chives; Red-banded Hairstreak: nectaring on Garlic Chives; Red-spotted Purple: mint fresh; Silver-spotted Skipper: fresh; Swarthy Skipper: very worn out; Least Skipper: one flew across a pond; Zabulon Skipper: a rag territorial male

flushed it out of hiding at 9:30 am

Fiery Skipper: a fresh male

Black Swallowtail: had only one tail; Gray Hairstreak: fresh

Eastern Tailed-Blue: one a very fresh female; Sachem: a few nectaring on a yellow-flowering Wood Sorrel sp.

Fiery Skipper: 2 males / one glowing orange!

Gray Hairstreak: both nectaring on a Fuzzybean Flower; Eastern Tailed-Blue: one nectaring on a Fuzzybean sp.; Wild Indigo Duskywing: most nectaring on a Fuzzybean sp. / one was egg laying on Wild Indigo Leaves; Crossline Skipper: They love to nectar on Fuzzybean Flowers.

a female

Gray Hairstreak: a male and a female nectaring side by side on a Goldenrod sp.; Eastern Tailed-Blue: nectaring on a Fuzzybean sp.; Common Buckeye: one nectaring on Eupatorium sp.; Tawny Emperor: a female / laying eggs on a mature Hackberry Leaf (digital images); Common Wood-Nymph: very faded; Monarch: fresh out; Horace's Duskywing: both males / nectaring on Goldenrod sp. and Proliferous Pink; Wild Indigo Duskywing: nectaring on a Fuzzybean sp.; Sachem: several nectaring on a Goldenrod sp.; Aaron's Skipper: nectaring on two different Aster species

Sachem: These are everywhere I go now!