March 2012 Sightings

egg laying on high bush blueberry

Falcate Orangetip: fresh male; patrolling

Frosted Elfin: fresh one / 9 days earlier than the earliest record - March 31st; Blueberry Azure: form marginata - 2 / other 2 flying non-stop; Blueberry Azure: a rare form / usually only 2 percent of a population is this form / third form of Blueberry Azure / images reviewed by David Wright; Mourning Cloak: a female checking out Willows; Common Buckeye: 1 runt (slightly less than 1 inch wingspan!) / maybe, a second one

Azure, sp.: quick flybys; Mourning Cloak: on the move!

Orange Sulphur: both flying due north over the canopy

Eastern Pine Elfin: Is anyone else seing these? Was looking for a Henry's and every one i found was Pine lol.

Falcate Orangetip: male, briefly nectared on vinca periwinkle; Brown Elfin: good look, no photo, distracted by M.cloak's shadow; Eastern Pine Elfin: landed briefly on sandy road; Blueberry Azure: 3 marginata, 1 lucia; Azure, sp.: flying through, no positive I.D.; Duskywing sp.: likely Juvenal's, got away!

Falcate Orangetip: male; Orange Sulphur: brief, late day obs.

Blueberry Azure: two were form marginata; Blueberry Azure: got excellant image of the rare form of Blueberry Azure; Horace's Duskywing: a fresh female - digital image / other one wasn't cooperative

conservative estimate

'Summer' Spring Azure: worn

Orange Sulphur: fog rolled in after 5 pm / I still saw 42 positioned on flowers for the night.

a road kill male

Cabbage White: hiding on the back of a leaf during very light rain; Orange Sulphur: two hiding on two different leaves of the same plant during very light rain

flushed out of Highbush Blueberry by a bird