September 2014 Sightings

Black Swallowtail: male; Clouded Sulphur: estimate; Orange Sulphur: estimate; Silver-spotted Skipper: some were fresh nectaring on a knapweed sp.; Sachem: A 7.41 acre tract of farmland at Swedesbridge & Oechsle is for sale. $135,000. I read the flyer.

Pearl Crescent: including 2 mated pairs

Black Swallowtail: female

Sachem: conservative count. The only commonly seenbutterfly.

Cloudless Sulphur: one flew by as I was watching cows with cattle egrets

Red-banded Hairstreak: 1 caught in spider's web; American Lady: also late instar cat on Sweet Everlasting; Red-spotted Purple: continued to lay eggs on Beach Plum; Fiery Skipper: both females; digital images; Zabulon Skipper: both males

Zabulon Skipper: a male

Clouded Sulphur: abundant, no count ( again out numbering C.eurytheme ); Orange Sulphur: abundant, no count; Meadow Fritillary: fresh

Sachem: on Common Cat's Ear

a female

Black Swallowtail: male , 3 females; Black Swallowtail: 1 instar, 4 larger look ready to pupate; Cloudless Sulphur: nectaring on salvia; Gray Hairstreak: 1 very fresh, 1 very worn; Common Buckeye: nectaring on Sedum; Red-spotted Purple: nectaring on rotten fruit; Monarch: 2 mating, 4 Enclosed; Monarch: New on swamp milkweed almost gone, moved to another swamp milkweed plant in yard; Sachem: Conservative number nectaring on Lantana, Blue Salvia and Purple Aster

Monarch: male

flying toward CMPt

Common Buckeye: on pink-flowering Gerardia; Sachem: a male pursuing a female

both fresh

Gray Hairstreak: on Sedum; Sachem: a female on Asiatic Day Lily

Red Admiral: raggy; Sachem: a female on red-flowering Spirea sp.

on Zinnias

The only visitor on this cloudy & cool day

Chris has raised this many and more this summer; their Swamp Milkweed was stripped in the nursery and chrysalises were even inside the greenhouse

Monarch: on Tropical Milkweed; Monarch: on Tropical Milkweed