New leps, 8/10/13

New leps, 8/10/13-8/4/13

Silver-spotted Skipper, Kellog, Derby 8/4/13

Peck's Skipper, ventral male

Monarch

Zabulon Skipper, dorsal male

Red Admiral

White M Hairstreak, ventral, 8/10/13, Stratford Point

Red Admiral, 8/10/13, home garden buddleia

Red-banded Hairstreak, ventral, 8/10/13 home garden butterfly weed

Red-banded Hairstreak, 8/10/13

White M Hairstreak, 8/10/13 Stratford Pt on Queen Anne's Lace

White M Hairstreak, 8/10/13

Mating Eastern-Tailed Blues, 8/10/13 Stratford Pt

White M Hairstreak, 8/10/13

White M Hairstreak, 8/10/13

Painted Lady, 8/10/13 Stratford Point

Question Mark, 8/9/13 Dorsal (summer brood) neighbor's house

Zabulon Skipper, ventral female, 8/10/13 home garden

Zabulon Skipper, dorsal female, 8/10/13 home garden

Black Swallowtail, ventral male, 8/10/13 home garden

Black Swallowtail, 8/10/13

Black Swallowtail, 8/10/13

Zabulon Skipper, dorsal female, 8/10/13

Zabulon Skipper, female, 8/10/13

Zabulon Skipper on top of buddleia; Broad-winged Skipper  below

Zabulon Skipper, ventral female, 8/10/13 home garden

Kellog Eastern Tiger Swallowtail dark form; Great Spangled Fritillary 7/31/13

On 7/31/13, our 3rd location for the dark form of the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail this week--this time at  Derby's Kellog Center in Derby CT.  Also present in the pond field across from the building, 2 Monarchs and a few Great Spangled Fritillaries:

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail dark form, dorsal

Monarch, 7/31/13, Kellog Center, Derby CT

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, dark form, ventral

Great Spangled Fritillary

Great Spangled Fritiallary, 7/31/13

Great Spangled Fritillary, 7/31/13

Milford leps & birds, 7/28-30/13

Milford leps and birds; Nettleton Pond is the pond at the terminus of Nettleton Creek, the border between Walnut Beach and Silver Sands State Park in Milford CT.  The Buckeye is our garden FOY.

Moth, species undetermined, Eisenhower Park, 7/30/13

Monarch Nettleton Pond (SSSP), 7/29/13

Caterpillar on Spartina, Milford Point, 7/28/13

Green Heron, Nettleton Pond, 7/29/13

Green Heron, Nettleton Pond, 7/29/13

Common Tern juvenile, 7/28/13 Milford Point

Buckeye, 7/29/13 Home Garden

Zabulon Skipper, male, Eisenhower Park, 7/30/13

Zabulon Skipper, male, Eisenhower Park, 7/30/13

Zabulon Skipper, male, Eisenhower Park, 7/30/13

Skipper

Ruby-throated Hummingbird, home garden 7/29/13