Sighting for August 23, 2009
Will Kerling
Leaming's Run
Cape May County, NJ
- Black Swallowtail 1
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
- Spicebush Swallowtail 9
- Cabbage White 26
- Cloudless Sulphur 1
- Gray Hairstreak 4
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
- 'Summer' Spring Azure 2
- Pearl Crescent 18
- Question Mark 1
- American Lady 5
- Red-spotted Purple 1
- Common Wood-Nymph 1
- Monarch 7
- Silver-spotted Skipper 21
- Common Sootywing 1
- Zabulon Skipper 21
- Salt Marsh Skipper 3
- Swarthy Skipper 1
- Least Skipper 20
- Fiery Skipper 1
- Tawny-edged Skipper 10
- Crossline Skipper 2
- Northern Broken-Dash 3
- Little Glassywing 1
- Sachem 50
- Delaware Skipper 1
- Broad-winged Skipper 20
- Dun Skipper 5
Black Swallowtail: fresh female; Cloudless Sulphur: very fresh looking one; Gray Hairstreak: all fresh ones!; American Lady: fresh and old ones; Monarch: a flying mated pair; Common Sootywing: #50 butterfly species for this ongoing inventory; Swarthy Skipper: a rare trace of FW spots; Fiery Skipper: a female / first of season / good digital images - top and bottom; Tawny-edged Skipper: great skipper day in this garden / 15 skipper species and some good numbers!; Northern Broken-Dash: digital image; Little Glassywing: digital image; Delaware Skipper: fresh male / # 49 butterfly species for this ongoing inventory