June 2012 Sightings

American Lady: 2 nectaring on dogbane & 1 Com.milkweed; Swarthy Skipper: nectaring on white penstemon; Little Glassywing: most of these were nectaring on the Com. Milkweed that Chris Herz saved from the mowers!; Zabulon Skipper: all males; Broad-winged Skipper: my FOY on Com.Milkweed

American Copper: fresh; Gray Hairstreak: fresh; Pearl Crescent: fresh; Dotted Skipper: photographed

Black Swallowtail: a fresh male; Spicebush Swallowtail: one nectaring on Japanese Honeysuckle; Cabbage White: nectared on Red Clover and Japanese Honeysuckle; American Snout: a female egg laying on Hackberry; Pearl Crescent: fairly fresh male; Question Mark: a 'Summer Form'; Silver-spotted Skipper: nectared on Yarrow; Least Skipper: a female; Zabulon Skipper: 2 females and a territorial male / nectaring record on Japanese Honeysuckle; Dun Skipper: nectaring on White Clover

Black Swallowtail: all cats on fennel, various instars

The parking area after crossing the bridge.

Question Mark: a 'Summer Form'

Orange Sulphur: The powerline cut.; Appalachian Brown: The Lincoln Ave. area; Little Wood-Satyr: The parking area at Lincoln Ave.

American Copper: nectaring on Rabbit-foot Clover and Coreopsis

Monarch: one a very large female / very pale and worn

both on a Bronze Fennel Plant

Cabbage White: nectaring on Red Clover; Zabulon Skipper: total rag males; Dun Skipper: nectaring on pink-flowering Sweet Pea sp.

'Summer' Spring Azure: nectaring on White Clover; Zabulon Skipper: very worn one

Black Swallowtail: late instar cats on denuded Fennel plant were relocated to better foliage; Spicebush Swallowtail: 1 fresh male nectaring on Oakleaf Hydrangea blossom

Orange Sulphur: nectaring on Red Clover; American Copper: nectaring on Red Clover and Rabbit-foot Clover; Zabulon Skipper: both very worn males

Black Swallowtail: a fresh male; American Snout: hanging around young Hackberry Trees; American Lady: one nectaring on Privet; Lady sp.: hanging out in a Privet Hedgerow - not a good look; Common Buckeye: nectaring on Privet; Silver-spotted Skipper: one nectaring on Privet

fresh

Cabbage White: Large stands of dogbane, most of butterflies found on it rather than the c. milkweed; in addition found a mourning cloak cat that fell into an excavated turtle nest hole!; American Copper: on trail, dogbane, and yarrow; Coral Hairstreak: could't find until 1:30 pm; near butterfly weed, but not nectaring on it.; Banded Hairstreak: faded, worn & tiny, different from 2 fresh individuals seen on 6/10/12; initially looked liked a small gray, photo'd; Red-banded Hairstreak: near small garden across road, butterfly bush area (not yet in bloom); Question Mark: on stones on sidewalk back to tennis courts; Eastern Comma: on c. milkweed near housing; American Lady: several fresh; Painted Lady: fresh; Red-spotted Purple: woods