CODES – BF=Bronze Fennel, LE = Laying Eggs, ST = SwallowTail, ETB = Eastern tailed blue, SSK = silver spotted skipper.
8/26/13 – 200 skippers – they are mainly Fiery and Pecks, plus a few SSK, some Dun, a couple Sootywing + others I can’t identify.
8/18/2013 – 3 yellow Tiger ST + 1 black, Ques. Mark, Spicebush LE, Red Admiral, Black ST LE bronze fennel + parsley, buckeye, Pipevine, Monarch (still no eggs), Red Admiral, 50 skippers, Silver Spotted Skipper, ETB. Grey hairstreak
8/8/13 – Giant ST LE on Rue and Hop Tree – Cloudless Sulphur LE on Partridge Pea I counted 22 eggs, but I’m sure there are more. Little Yellow – TST yellow and black – Giant ST nec on lantana – Buckeye – Question Mark LE hackberry – BST eggs and larvae on BF –
8/3/13 – Black ST 1 male and female LE on bronze fennel – Spicebush ST laying eggs on spicebush – Tiger ST black and yellow – Monarch (male) – Or. sulphur – red admiral – 2 silver spotted skipper – 5 Cab whites – LOTS of skippers – Eastern tailed blue – Pearl Crescent -Hackberry – Cloudless Sulphur – Checkered White? – Summer Azure LE on PeeGee hydrangea,
7/23/13 – Giant ST – 2 Black ST, 2 Tiger ST, Spicebush ST,2 male Monarchs – or. sulphur, 50 skippers, buckeye, red admiral, 2 silver-spotted skippers, 4 Cabbage whites, Eastern TB. This week has been the best yet.
7/13 – Buckeye – PL – Or Sul – 2 fiery skipper
Test – cut Dianthus to ground
7/11 – BST – ETB – OR Sul – Reakirts Blue – Sum Azure
7/8 – Buckeye – Tiger ST – Summer Azure – Grey HS –
TEST – cut Daisy May and Daisy White Breeze to ground – then fertilized.
7/5 – 4 Cab Wh – Pearl Crescent + Great Spangle Frit –
7/4 – 2 Fiery skippers nec buddleia – BST – PL – Grey HS
7/3 – BST – TST – Red Admiral – nec echinacea
6/30 – Red Admiral larvae on False Nettle.
6/29
- 2 Black ST – 1 male – 1 female laying eggs on bronze fennel – not I also have larvae on that.
- 1st Buckeye nec – slender mountain mint
- talked to Charlotte – raised 15 Monarch larvae (ordered) – they all died.
6/28
- Buckeye nec Slender MM
- Orange sulphur
- Black ST
6/27
- Red Admiral
- 2 orange sulphur nec lantana, coreopsis, shasta
6/25
- 2 ETB
- Red Admiral
- Cloudless sulphur
6/23 – Red Admiral
6/21 – 2 orange sulphur nec VB
6/19
- Cloudless Sulphur-
- released 1 BST & 1 American Lady
- larvae on pearly everlasting
- cab white larvae
- ETB
- Fiery skipper
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