Sighting for August 1, 2009

Dale Schweitzer, Khara McKeen, Moses Katkowski and Will Kerling

Lizard Tail
Cape May County, NJ

Red-spotted Purple: egg laying on cherry tree; Viceroy: fresh males on territory; Wild Indigo Duskywing: nectaring on knapweed; Northern Broken-Dash: nectaring on Sweet Pepperbush / 60th sp. for LT ongoing butterfly inventory; Zabulon Skipper: fresh male

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Orange Sulphur 5
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • American Lady 3
  • Common Buckeye 19
  • Red-spotted Purple 7
  • Viceroy 8
  • Little Wood-Satyr 1
  • Common Wood-Nymph 7
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 3
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 19
  • Northern Broken-Dash 2
  • Sachem 1
  • Broad-winged Skipper 8