June 2012 Sightings

photo'd, fresh. new for my campus list

American Lady: immaculate; Common Buckeye: fresh / very dark; Silver-spotted Skipper: hanging near young Locust Trees; Sachem: a pale one that was hard to id; Zabulon Skipper: two very faded males

Oak Hairstreak: photographed

Red Admiral: late day visit to fruit dish

Orange Sulphur: late in the day obs. 3:30-5:15 pm; American Snout: by tie-off point on trail; Eastern Comma: all fresh, by tie-off point; American Lady: on dogbane by water station, end of trail; Monarch: female & one cat (rescued); trail edge being mowed; asked mower to save the c. milkweed patch as it is nearly in full bloom! he said he would.; Swarthy Skipper: on white penstemon in fieldnear garden shack; one in butterfly garden on purple salvia; Zabulon Skipper: males, most worn

Silver-spotted Skipper: early instars under folded leaves of black locust sapling

American Lady: 1 tattered, 1 in good shape

Mourning Cloak: same one as on 6/4 & 6/5; Peck's Skipper: nectaring on Com.milkweed

Spicebush Swallowtail: 1 female nectaring on Butterfly Weed; Red-banded Hairstreak: on Silky Dogwood; 'Summer' Spring Azure: on Silky Dogwood

Orange Sulphur: nectaring on Red Clover and Rabbit-foot Clover; American Copper: nectaring on Rabbit-foot Clover; Eastern Tailed-Blue: nectaring on Rabbit-foot Clover; American Lady: nectaring on Red Clover; Silver-spotted Skipper: all nectaring on pink-flowering Sweet Pea sp.; Least Skipper: nectaring on pink-flowering Sweet Pea sp.; Tawny-edged Skipper: very worn; Zabulon Skipper: 4 males and 1 female / all nectaring on pink-flowering Sweet Pea sp.

Coral Hairstreak: all on Com. Milkweed; Banded Hairstreak: nectaring on Com.milkweed; American Lady: both in poor shape; Red Admiral: A brief survey after work in search of Hairstreaks; Common Buckeye: nectaring on sand blackberry; Little Glassywing: nectaring on Com.milkweed; Zabulon Skipper: 2 males & 1 female all well worn

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: first time, I've seen two in one place this year; Spicebush Swallowtail: one nectaring on Japanese Honeysuckle; Question Mark: a 'Summer Form'; Red-spotted Purple: worn; Crossline Skipper: all worn and faded in color

Red Admiral: worn and ragged; Silver-spotted Skipper: late instars between sealed leaves of black locust; Peck's Skipper: worn; Zabulon Skipper: male, not fresh

Cabbage White: three nectaring on Red Clovers; Orange Sulphur: nectaring on Rabbit-foot Clover and pink-flowering Sweet Pea sp.; American Copper: nectaring on Rabbit-foot Clover; Eastern Tailed-Blue: nectaring on Rabbit-foot Clover; Common Buckeye: nectaring on pink-flowering Sweet Pea sp.; Silver-spotted Skipper: nectaring on pink-flowering Sweet Pea sp.; Tawny-edged Skipper: nectaring on pink-flowering Sweet Pea sp.; Zabulon Skipper: nectaring on pink-flowering Sweet Pea sp.

Dun Skipper: nectaring on White Clover / a male

Swallowtail sp.: black/spicebush non-stop; Northern Cloudywing: photo'd; usu we see southern more often locally; Tawny-edged Skipper: 1 nectaring on blunt-lvd milkweed