Sighting for September 28, 2015

Jack Miller

E. Point Rd Heislerville WMA
Cumberland County, NJ

Last stop of a memorable 4 hr Bayshores drive. Light breeze, mostly sunny, mid 70's at 1:00pm. This pulloff was an astounding 20 ft of goldenrod that presented at least 14 species. Unfortunately, I accidentally erased many photos, including one of a probable Wild Indigo Duskywing. Some photos had 4 different species in the frame. The pictured Am Lady was so fresh it was still uncrinkling its wings. There were more hairstreaks of each species but I stopped counting. The Cloudless Sulfur was a flyby. For the day: 10 skipper species; 21 total species.

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • White M Hairstreak 4
  • Gray Hairstreak 6
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 4
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • American Lady 2
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • Monarch 2
  • Duskywing sp. 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 6
  • Aaron's Skipper 1
  • Ocola Skipper 3
  • Fiery Skipper 2
  • Sachem 5

Horace's Duskywing

White M Hairstreak

American Lady

Ocola Skipper

Aaron's Skipper