[Ctleps-l] Hairstreak-a-Palooza, Odes, etc.

[Raymond Simpson]

Hey all,

Had a few short trips and a couple longer ones the last couple weekends,
with a bunch of stuff seen.  I'll just put it all in one list and annotate
the good stuff.

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Spicebush Swallowtail
Cabbage White
Clouded Sulphur (3 at Machimoodus SP)
Orange Sulphur (1 at Machimoodus SP)
ETB
Summer Azure (4 on West Rock)
American Copper (3 at Haddam Meadows)
Banded Hairstreak (all over the place, all West Rock individuals even
perched on Hickory were all Bandeds, any Hickory records from there NEED
vouchers, sight isn't good enough)
Coral Hairstreak (12+ at Brooksvale were all males and fresh)
Striped Hairstreak (1 at Sessions Woods perched on cherry)
Acadian Hairstreak (1 fresh at Naugatuck)
Edwards Hairstreak (2 at Naugatuck, 3 at West Rock)
American Lady (1 at Machimoodus)
Red Admiral
Eastern Comma (Devils Hopyard SP)
Monarch (2 at Machimoodus on Milkweed)
Viceroy (1 at Haddam Meadows)
Great Spangled Fritillary (common)
Pearl Crescent
Little Wood Satyr (West Rock)
Common Wood Nymph (1 at Naugatuck, 1 at Machimoodus nectaring on Milkweed)
SSS
Hoary Edge (West Rock)
Wild Indigo Duskywing (1 female at Naugatuck)
Delaware Skipper (Machimoodus)
Little Glassywing
Northern Broken-dash
European Skipper
Hobomok Skipper
Least Skipper (1 in swamp near E. Haddam)

Odes were very abundant in places and I found some cool ones.  Males of
most species are mature and getting their pruinose abdomens and white wing
patterns in the Libellula.

Common Whitetail
Prince Baskettail
Four-spotted Skimmer
Twelve-spotted Skimmer
Slaty Skimmer
Widow Skimmer (insanely common)
Spangled Skimmer
Calico Pennant
Blue Dasher
Meadowhawk sp. (Whiteface?  bright red males)
Emerald sp. (West Rock, my first emerald, don't have an ID yet)
Dragonhunter (another new species, 4 at Devils Hopyard)
Moustached Clubtail (6+ at Devils Hopyard, also new)
Lancet Clubtail
Clubtail sp. (greenish larger species with brownish tip of abdomen)
Ebony Jewelwing
Purple Damsel sp.
Powdered Dancer? (a pruinose damsel)

My frustration of the week is not finding the alleged Baltimore
Checkerspots on the mother-lode of Milkweed at Machimoodus.  There were
thousands of milkweed plants but not much lep action besides Fritillaries.
 I have also failed to find Ringlets this season for some reason, and I
couldn't find the locality for Bog Copper in E. Haddam.  I found a nice ode
swamp in that area but no cranberry bogs.

Ray Simpson
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