October 2012 Sightings

Weekly count with groundskeeper Matt Ceplo
With Jane Lampkin
+ 1 Black Swallowtail caterpillar
+ 1 duskywing sp

Lifer Yehl Skipper!!

Texan Crescent!!

Very little nectar here. Only limited amounts of seaside goldenrod. The Little Yellow was flying south on the boardwalk.

Observations made after 4 p.m. under cloudy skies and temps in the mid 80’s

Observations were made in a weedy field between the Tanger Seaside Outlet facility (Rt1) & Junction/Breakwater trail head.This can also be accessed via Holland Glade Road.

Sightings recorded over 1 hour and 5 minutes.
Weather: 76°F - 76°F
Habitat: Large multi-bed flower garden in developed semi-wooded residential neighborhood.

An excellent place to see Berry’s Skipper especially in early October.

Was down at a training for GE Appliances in Louisville, KY. Had a couple breaks which entailed me checking around with my i-Phone. Made for some tough photos, but I got some in! Enjoyed the treat of ending the day with a Variegated Fritillary (photo attached) as well :) A couple beautiful pairs of Eastern Tailed Blues (female photo attached) as well.

Deja vu all over again. 1st record for Toronto Region and the Northernmost record in Ontario. Forwarded by Alfred Adamo.

Locations included Hereford Inlet Lighthouse, Cape May S.P., Nature Conservancy’s South Cape May Meadows, The Rea Farm, Cape May-Lewes Ferry terminal, & various gardens & roadsides in Cape May Point.

First cooperative Cloudless Sulphur that I have ever had here.
Swarthy Skipper extremely late.
Big number of Fiery Skippers for this location.

Second cooperative Cloudless Sulphur I have ever had here.
Long-tail only allowed one photo. Although diagnostic, not postable.

Weekly count with Alan Wells
Temps in the mid-70’s

This 11,000 preserve covers both Polk and Osceola Counties. This field trip was part of the Central Florida Nature Fest. We covered the area by swamp buggy, totally necessary because of all the rain central Florida has received this summer and fall. Soldier are not common this far north.

Most butterflies at the pollination garden at the Mustang trailhead. 4 Monarch caterpillars.

Common Checkered Skippers were observed across road from nursery on lawn with their host plant, Common Mallow (Cheeses) and in grasses nearby the Cricket field. We saw 5 individuals but might have seen more if not for very windy conditions. Photo by Lew Rosenberg.

Tiger Swallowtail seems late

This is what is affectionately known as ‘The Death by Skipper’ trip undertaken annually in October. Linda Cooper, Dave and Marga Cutler, Sue Farnsworth, Dusty and Laurel Rhodes, Jean Evoy, Bob Vance. KPPSP is as wet as we have seen it in several years. October rainfall here is already above average.

Found a goatweed leafwing (Anaea andria) … the first ever seen in the 6 years we’ve lived here.

in the community garden plot near the park entrance.

3 Dainty Sulphurs, photograph of one submitted. Seen today by four observers and found last week by a butterfly/dragonfly survey group.

At the pollinator garden in the Mustang trailhead parking lot.

Two Monarach caterpillars found.

31• low 61• current

Southern Dogface showing the fall form with heavy pink veining.

Monarch seen flying south over busy intersection — 48 to 49 degrees, but sunny — 10 a.m.!

Weekly count with Alan Wells
With Della Wells
Proving that butterflying is possible even in 50 degree weather. However, we recommend it only for the desperate.

Just three butterflies flying by in the wind including one very orange grass skipper.

Windy afternoon, so most butterflies were found along the less windy dirt road / path.
But male Bronze Copper at rim of pond along Dutch Neck Road.
Eastern-Tailed Blues included one mating pair.

Good day for butterflies, especially being the coldest day so far this fall here.

I didn’t think the queen was supposed to be in this county

Chenopodium watsonii and Heliomeris annua were abundant. Weather: sunny, no wind, comfortably cool. Elevation: 5000— 5500 ft.

Monarch flying in the underground train station at Penn Station. Took a ride in?

Many Red Admirals, and lesser numbers of Question Marks, actively migrating along the barrier beach.

Most plants in the gardens killed by a recent frost

This covers butterflies seen by Buck and Linda Cooper October 18-21, 2012 in the gardens.
Black-banded Wasp Moth was unexpected.
Others have seen Red Rim and Four-spotted Sailor.

Finally found a Long-tailed Skipper after many attempts!

All butterflies near the park entrance, in asters just west of the gravel parking lot or around the community garden plots.

brief visit ca 4:45 - 5pm

3- 4:30 Buddelia blooms almost all gone, but lots of Baccharis in bloom; the year of the admiral lingers on.

Forwarded from Ontario Butterflies Google Group by Don Davis.

Weekly Count with Alan Wells
Unusual sight of Monarch nectaring on Witch Hazel

Sightings recorded from 1:50 pm - 3:50 pm.
Weather: 82°F- 80°F, partly cloudy, windy
Habitat: Multi-bed public flower garden in residential neighborhood on Mississippi River bluff

A great day for end-of-year butterflying!

Eufala Skipper is a very uncommon migrant.

Nice Indian Summer afternoon. Only American Copper I’ve seen this year. A “white form” sulphur. And Common Buckeyes all around.

DAINTY SULPHUR (1) new for site—smaller than Little Yellow with greenish yellow color in flight and orange at base of forewing; flight very close to ground, black bar on inner margin of forewing briefly visible in flight

The warm front got a lot of leps moving out in the gardens today. The most notable shift in species was a tremendous influx of Western Pygmy-blues and Eufala Skippers. This list is from spending 30 minutes on the KSU gardens.

80 degrees and Sunny. I looked for 2.5 hours. In addition to the butterflies, I saw 70+ American Bird Grasshoppers. I have never seen them before. They are large and fly very fast!

10:45-noon, the calm before the (tropical) storm

A good place for Silver-banded Hairstreaks and Yojoa Scrub-Hairstreaks. The Silver-banded in photo was a female laying eggs on balloonvine. Steve Moore, Barbara Volke, Buck Cooper, Linda Cooper. Photos by Linda F. Cooper

Seen today from noon until 3 p.m. by Barbara Volke, Steve Moore, Buck Cooper, Linda Cooper. Photos by Linda F. Cooper

The first butterflies here since Hurricane Sandy