May 2009 Sightings

Will Kerling

Woodbine, NJ
Cape May County, NJ

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1

Will Kerling

Sutton Road off old Rte. 47
Cape May County, NJ

Zabulon Skipper: 3 males, 2 females

  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 5

Jim Dowdell

near Pomona
Atlantic County, NJ

  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Stephen Mason

MossMill Rd
Atlantic County, NJ

Sulphur sp.: white female

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Sulphur sp. 1

Will Kerling

Rte 47
Cape May County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 7
  • Orange Sulphur 3

Will Kerling

Goshen CRE Garden
Cape May County, NJ

Zabulon Skipper: a male on territory; Aaron's Skipper: species # 51 / digital image

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Hayhurst's Scallopwing 3
  • Aaron's Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 1
  • Sachem 1

Will Kerling

Lizard Tail
Cape May County, NJ

Frosted Elfin: egg laying on Wild Indigo / didn't survey their whole area; Eastern Pine Elfin: very worn female egg laying on young pine (2 feet tall); Red-banded Hairstreak: nectaring on Dewberry Blossoms; Question Mark: a summer form one; Viceroy: all males on territory; Little Wood-Satyr: possibly nectaring on Multiflora Rose (2 individuals); Wild Indigo Duskywing: female egg laying on Wild Indigo; Cobweb Skipper: a tattered female / one of the last for the season; Sachem: nectaring on Dewberry blossoms and Multiflora Rose

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 11
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Frosted Elfin 13
  • Eastern Pine Elfin 1
  • Juniper Hairstreak 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Question Mark 1
  • American Lady 2
  • Common Buckeye 4
  • Red-spotted Purple 5
  • Viceroy 12
  • Little Wood-Satyr 47
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Least Skipper 7
  • Cobweb Skipper 1
  • Sachem 25

Stephen Mason

FPP - trial to "orchid spot"
Burlington County, NJ

decent condition

  • Eastern Pine Elfin 1

Stephen Mason

FPP - beginning of Airfield
Burlington County, NJ

Holly Azure: worn, checking out Inkberry

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4 or 5
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Holly Azure 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • American Lady 1

Shawn Wainwright

Ocean County Administration Offices
Ocean County, NJ

Mourning Cloak: displaying nicely; Hackberry Emperor: 1 month early for me, nectaring on Oak sap

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • Hackberry Emperor 1

Stephen Mason

FPP - Parker Ln
Burlington County, NJ

  • Pearl Crescent 4

Chris Tonkinson and Will Kerling

West Cape May
Cape May County, NJ

  • Orange Sulphur 1

Stephen Mason

Berlin
Camden County, NJ

driving home from FPP

  • Cabbage White 1

Marty DeAngelo

Taylor Wildlife Refuge
Burlington County, NJ

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 25+
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 12+
  • Horace's Duskywing 3
  • Zabulon Skipper 25+
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 5

Stephen Mason

Tabernacle
Burlington County, NJ

driving home from FPP

  • Cabbage White 1

Stephen Mason

my yard, Voorhees
Camden County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 1

Cynthia Allen

Backyard in CMCH
Cape May County, NJ

checking out Silky Dogwood, C. amomun, which sp. has used as foodplant in past

  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1

Shawn Wainwright

My Parents Butterfly garden
Ocean County, NJ

Zabulon Skipper: On a cucumber leaf

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 1

Stephen Mason

FPP - 10 trunks - rd to lodge
Burlington County, NJ

Red-spotted Purple: feeding on dead tutrle

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1

Chris Tonkinson and Will Kerling

Route 47 enroute to Cape May from CMCH
Cape May County, NJ

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 2

Stephen Mason

Marlton
Burlington County, NJ

driving to FPP

  • Cabbage White 1

Chris Tonkinson and Will Kerling

CMCH - USPS
Cape May County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 1

Shawn Wainwright

Cattus Island
Ocean County, NJ

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1

Chris Tonkinson and Will Kerling

Cape May Migratory Bird Refuge
Cape May County, NJ

Black Swallowtail: 2 females and 6 males (some hilltopping on sand dunes); Orange Sulphur: 3 yellow form females and a white form female (all Orange Sulphurs egg laying); 'Summer' Spring Azure: nectaring on Dewberry blossoms (digital images); Pearl Crescent: a worn female; American Lady: very fresh; Monarch: first fresh out of chrysalis one for us; Least Skipper: nectaring on White Sweet Clover, Dandelion, Blue Toadflax and Yellow Wood Sorrel; Sachem: nectaring on White Sweet Clover

  • Black Swallowtail 8
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Orange Sulphur 4
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 3
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Least Skipper 91
  • Sachem 4

Chris Tonkinson and Will Kerling

Rte. 9 toward Rte. 550
Cape May County, NJ

Question Mark: summer form

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Question Mark 2

Cynthia Allen

Yard in CMCH
Cape May County, NJ

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • American Lady 1

Tom Reed

Yard in Reed's Beach
Cape May County, NJ

  • Variegated Fritillary 1

Shawn Wainwright

Island Beach State Park
Ocean County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 1

Susan Mason & Stephen Mason

my yard, Voorhees
Camden County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 2

Susan Mason & Stephen Mason

FPP - beginning of Airfield
Burlington County, NJ

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2 or 3
  • American Lady 1
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