Sighting for August 14, 2009

David Lord and Will Kerling

CRE Goshen Garden
Cape May County, NJ

Black Swallowtail: males and a few females; Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: one dark form female; American Snout: both nectaring on the Mountain Mint - at great length; Pearl Crescent: a mated pair; Monarch: a mated pair in a Butterfly Bush; Horace's Duskywing: a female / nectaring on Mountain Mint; Sachem: mostly faded females; Delaware Skipper: a mated pair; Zabulon Skipper: 3 females

  • Black Swallowtail 10
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 6
  • Cabbage White 22
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 14
  • Juniper Hairstreak 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 5
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 12
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 3
  • American Snout 2
  • Pearl Crescent 26
  • Question Mark 3
  • American Lady 14
  • Common Buckeye 30
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Common Wood-Nymph 10
  • Monarch 8
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 20
  • Hayhurst's Scallopwing 2
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Common Sootywing 7
  • Rare Skipper 2
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 28
  • Aaron's Skipper 22
  • Zabulon Skipper 32
  • Swarthy Skipper 18
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 2
  • Crossline Skipper 2
  • Little Glassywing 2
  • Sachem 7
  • Delaware Skipper 18
  • Broad-winged Skipper 250+
  • Dun Skipper 5