September 2012 Sightings

Black Swallowtail: female; Painted Lady: still going strong along this roadside; Fiery Skipper: males

Horace's Duskywing: a fresh female; Fiery Skipper: a female and a male

Sleepy Orange: nectaring on Thistle sp.

Black Swallowtail: both females; Question Mark: well worn 'Summer Form'

Black Swallowtail: a male; Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: incl. a mated pair on the ground and a 'black form' female; Spicebush Swallowtail: very low number; been averaging 6/day; Red-banded Hairstreak: 2 worn; Question Mark: 3rd day of this rag; Monarch: incl. two mated pairs

Checkered White: after reviewing images, I actually had 2 individuals, 1 male & 1 female on a mustard sp. Sadly the productive roadsides on Pointers-Auburn Rd. have been severely mowed. Likely gone are the eggs, cats, & chrysalids.; Sulphur sp.: white fem.; Peck's Skipper: nectaring on red clover

Black Swallowtail: a male

Black Swallowtail: found the Chrysalis near parsley - digital image; Zabulon Skipper: a male

Wild Indigo Duskywing: fresh

Black Swallowtail: 2 females; Cloudless Sulphur: one puddling; Gray Hairstreak: nectaring on Sedum; Fiery Skipper: a very bright male

great number for Cumberland County

Cloudless Sulphur: hard to estimate looping thru all day; Gray Hairstreak: two worn, one newly emerged; Red-banded Hairstreak: fresh; Question Mark: at bananas, strikingly fresh; American Lady: one immaculately fresh; Painted Lady: hard to estimate; Red-spotted Purple: at bananas; Tawny Emperor: at bananas; Monarch: cat beginning pupation; Silver-spotted Skipper: very worn; inactive; Zabulon Skipper: males; Ocola Skipper: photo'd, our 1st Sept record

Black Swallowtail: all males

Spicebush Swallowtail: 3; American Lady: mostly on Sedum; Painted Lady: mostly on Sedum; SPECTACULAR! Like NOTHING we've seen in 35 years at Cape May looking at and gardening for butterflies; Red-spotted Purple: on fruit; Fiery Skipper: male and female

Black Swallowtail: a female egg laying; Cloudless Sulphur: a female egg laying on Partridge Pea; Little Yellow: a female and two males; Painted Lady: 2 nectaring on Red Clover; Silver-spotted Skipper: 1 nectaring on Red Clover; Zabulon Skipper: a female

on Dutchman's Pipe

Monarch: & numerous cats. on tropical milkweed

Incl. one dark form female

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: incuding a dark form female; White M Hairstreak: nectared on zinnia, agastache, and purple lantana. digital images reveal a different individual then the one spotted here on 8/30; Red-banded Hairstreak: nectared on mtn.mint, goldenrod, & purple lantana; Question Mark: welcomed me home from Salem by landing on my shirt; Wild Indigo Duskywing: 1 fresh, 1 beat up; Zabulon Skipper: 2 males, 1 female

Common Buckeye: nectaring on purple loosestrife; Red-spotted Purple: checked out the Beaver Creek area. not much nectar and roadsides mowed