September 2014 Sightings

Orange Sulphur: most likely, dispersing through the area; Sachem: no count/ plenty!

Red-spotted Purple: on dish of gooey fruit; Appalachian Brown: on dish of gooey fruit; Monarch: males

Black Swallowtail: female on lantana; Black Swallowtail: all on parsley, various stages; Monarch: on tropical milkweed & mexican sunflower; Monarch: on c. milkweed; 1 on butterfly weed; Wild Indigo Duskywing: one an early instar, one late instar

Red-banded Hairstreak: all worn; Zabulon Skipper: all males

Black Swallowtail: 2 Male & 1 female; Black Swallowtail: cats on Curly Parsley and 1 Chrysalis; Cloudless Sulphur: FOY for my yard; Question Mark: nectaring on rotten fruit; Red Admiral: Very worn nectaring on rotten fruit; Common Buckeye: only second seen in the yard this year; Red-spotted Purple: nectaring on rotten fruit; Monarch: Most on Tropical Milkweed; Monarch: on 5 different Swamp Milkweed, 3 on Common Milkweed and several Chrysalis; Sachem: Conservative number- most on Lantana and Blue Salvia; Zabulon Skipper: 2 males and 1 female; Ocola Skipper: nectaring on Mexican Sunflower

Orange Sulphur: some nectaring on Common Cat's-ear

Spicebush Swallowtail: female; Sachem: probably more; all over lantana & celosia; have lantana planted around entrance and many lantana for sale–plus one dark skipper I couldn't id–maybe a dun

Spicebush Swallowtail: a rag female; Gray Hairstreak: nectaring on Garlic Chive flower; Red-banded Hairstreak: engaged in aerial combat at the top of a sunlit oak tree around 6-6:30 PM; Zabulon Skipper: all males

Eastern Comma: very fresh; Tawny Emperor: FOY for garden

Black Swallowtail: a fresh male; Monarch: travelling northward; Sachem: one female

Spicebush Swallowtail: caterpillar on Spicebush; Spicebush Swallowtail: chrysalis at base of Sassafras tree

Swallowtail sp.: black in color; Common Checkered-Skipper: watched along the edge of a Soybean field while traffic was backed up

Painted Lady: on white eupatorium sp.; Red-spotted Purple: on white eupatorium sp.; Monarch: on white eupatorium sp.

Gray Hairstreak: on white eupatorium sp.

Black Swallowtail: male; Hackberry Emperor: on trunk of Hackberry tree; Tawny Emperor: 1 fresh, 2 not so much, all on lilac sap

Black Swallowtail: nectaring on goldenrod and Purple Loosestrife (GRRRRRRR); Orange Sulphur: nectaring on goldenrod; American Lady: nectaring on male Groundsel-tree; American Lady: large caterpillar on Everlasting; Common Buckeye: nectaring on goldenrod; Sachem: nectaring on male Groundsel-tree

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: female: nectared in garden and then went up into Tulip Tree and began laying eggs; Red-spotted Purple: on dish of gooey fruit; Tawny Emperor: on dish of gooey fruit

Zabulon Skipper: a male