November 2014 Sightings

Black Swallowtail: Continuing - various sizes; Black Swallowtail: Continuing; Monarch: Continuing -Will they overwinter?

found a microclimate out of the wind / This sulphur was flying on its own - barely over 50 degrees!

Clouded Sulphur: classic one / some tattered - digital image; Sachem: a fairly, fresh male

Painted Lady: active and in great shape

nectaring on Common Cat's-ear

Orange Sulphur: nectared on Red Clover and Common Cat's-ear; Common Buckeye: nectaring on Common Cat's-ear; Monarch: flushed in thick vegetation / rose up and circled then went high in the air and headed southward

Orange Sulphur: nectared on Frost Aster and Dandelion; Red-banded Hairstreak: mint fresh - digital images; Eastern Tailed-Blue: a worn female; Painted Lady: nectared on Frost Aster and Common Cat's-ear; Red Admiral: dispersing southward; Common Buckeye: nectaring on Frost Aster; Ocola Skipper: nectaring on Common Cat's-ear / mint fresh and our first November record for the seven years!

Clouded Sulphur: fresh

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found 58 individual butterflies for the day and 10 butterfly species

very fresh

a female nectaring on Wood Sorrel

Cabbage White: in community garden; Clouded Sulphur: fields on dandelion; Orange Sulphur: fields on dandelion; Common Checkered-Skipper: in comm. garden

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Orange Sulphur: one white form; Sachem: male in good condition

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