August 2009 Sightings

Sandra Keller

My garden in Barrington.
Camden County, NJ

All nectaring on my Sedum and Joe Pye Weed plants. 13 males, 3 females.

  • Sachem 16

J&J Connor

our garden, Port Republic
Atlantic County, NJ

Silver-spotted Skipper: numbers low today, rain

  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Monarch 4
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Sachem 4

Will Kerling

CRE Goshen Garden
Cape May County, NJ

Swarthy Skipper: found in tall grass meadow, mostly

  • Cabbage White 10
  • American Copper 3
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 5
  • Pearl Crescent 10
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 8
  • Zabulon Skipper 2
  • Aaron's Skipper 5
  • Swarthy Skipper 8
  • Sachem 26
  • Broad-winged Skipper 2

Dave Amadio

Fort Mott St. Pk
Salem County, NJ

Cabbage White: on purple loosestrife

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 3

Dave Amadio

Supawna MWR
Salem County, NJ

  • Peck's Skipper 1

Dave Amadio

Fort Mott St. PK
Salem County, NJ

  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1

Will Kerling

TNC - Lizard Tail
Cape May County, NJ

American Lady: landed on my field notes / wrote it up while it sat there!; Red-spotted Purple: rag / on cherry trees; Horace's Duskywing: biggest one day total for the year!; Horace's Duskywing: nectaring on Chinese Bushy Clover; Swarthy Skipper: a female with very discernible spots / digital image / see Kaufman and Brock for context; Crossline Skipper: two basking females; Sachem: all females; Zabulon Skipper: one female

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 8
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • American Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Viceroy 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 6
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 5
  • Swarthy Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 8
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 3
  • Crossline Skipper 2
  • Sachem 4
  • Sachem 19
  • Dun Skipper 2

Dave Amadio

Backyard garden, West Deptford
Gloucester County, NJ

Eastern Comma: both summer form; Red-spotted Purple: fresh; Sachem: mostly on Buddleia; Zabulon Skipper: 3 males 2 females

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Eastern Comma 2
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Monarch 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 5
  • Sachem 15

Stephen Mason

yard, Voorhees
Camden County, NJ

  • Sachem 2

Dave Amadio

Supawna NWR
Salem County, NJ

Black Swallowtail: 7 males 1 female; Red-banded Hairstreak: all on goldenrod; Horace's Duskywing: worn female; Wild Indigo Duskywing: on white clover; Swarthy Skipper: both on goldenrod; Tawny-edged Skipper: on red clover; Sachem: mostly on goldenrod, the dominant nectar source at Supawna right now; Zabulon Skipper: 5 males 2 females; Broad-winged Skipper: on goldenrod and pickerel weed

  • Black Swallowtail 8
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 9
  • Orange Sulphur 8
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 11
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 3
  • Pearl Crescent 14
  • American Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Red-spotted Purple 3
  • Viceroy 2
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Monarch 15
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 4
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 7
  • Swarthy Skipper 2
  • Least Skipper 15
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Sachem 61
  • Broad-winged Skipper 7

Stephen Mason

yard, Voorhees
Camden County, NJ

male

  • Sachem 1

Dave Amadio

Backyard garden, West deptford
Gloucester County, NJ

on mountain mint

  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1

Jamie Cromartie & Ben Cromartie

Forsythe NWR Brigantine holly woodland
Atlantic County, NJ

  • Red-spotted Purple 1

Chip Krilowicz/Jean Gutsmuth

Wheelabrator wildlife refuge
Gloucester County, NJ

Hackberry Emperor: Sitting on Hackberry Tree?

  • Question Mark 1
  • Hackberry Emperor 5

Dave Amadio

Backyard garden, West Deptford
Gloucester County, NJ

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: dark form female

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

Dave Amadio

Riverwinds scenic trail
Gloucester County, NJ

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: on pickerel weed; Hackberry Emperor: one landing on my shoulder; Silver-spotted Skipper: mostly on purple loosestrife

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 2
  • American Copper 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 7
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 5
  • Viceroy 6
  • Hackberry Emperor 2
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 8
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 3
  • Zabulon Skipper 5
  • Swarthy Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 2
  • Crossline Skipper 4
  • Sachem 73

Chip Krilowicz/Jean Gutsmuth

National Park
Gloucester County, NJ

We seen 31 species today will enter only what has not been entered by Dave

  • American Snout 1

Ben Cromartie

Garden S Vienna Av, Galloway Twp
Atlantic County, NJ

  • Pearl Crescent 1

Dave Amadio

Riverwinds community center
Gloucester County, NJ

Black Swallowtail: some of this habitat has now been mowed; Wild Indigo Duskywing: one mated pair

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Orange Sulphur 32
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Pearl Crescent 26
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • Viceroy 3
  • Hayhurst's Scallopwing 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 2
  • Sachem 14

Chip Krilowicz/Jean Gutsmuth

Riverwinds scenic trail
Gloucester County, NJ

  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1

Jamie Cromartie

Garden S Vienna Av, Galloway Twp
Atlantic County, NJ

Spicebush Swallowtail: very worn; Monarch: Small larva on Aesclepias syriaca (common milkweed) probably 2nd instar

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 4
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Sachem 6
  • Dun Skipper 1

Pat & Clay Sutton

Sutton's GDN in Goshen
Cape May County, NJ

Red-spotted Purple: coming to fruit; Monarch: including 2 "in tandem," mating

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 15
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 2
  • Monarch 5
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 25
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 20
  • Zabulon Skipper 7
  • Sachem 10
  • Broad-winged Skipper 10

Jamie Cromartie & Ben Cromartie

Forsythe NWR Brigantine dikes
Atlantic County, NJ

Black Swallowtail: common on flowers; mostly males; Orange Sulphur: includes one white form; Cloudless Sulphur: at far end of dikes drive

  • Black Swallowtail 50
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Orange Sulphur 20
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Monarch 15

Dave Lord Jr.

Goshen Landing
Cape May County, NJ

  • American Copper 2
  • Common Buckeye 5
  • Monarch 4
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 6
  • Dun Skipper 2

Dave

Backyard garden, West Deptford
Gloucester County, NJ

  • Dun Skipper 1

Dave Amadio

Backyard garden, West Deptford
Gloucester County, NJ

Eastern Comma: very worn

  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 4
  • Sachem 12

Sandra Keller

My garden and yard in Barrington
Camden County, NJ

With 6 females. They were all over the yard on all sorts of nectar plants.

  • Sachem 22

Jack Connor

Our garden, Pt Republic
Atlantic County, NJ

Spicebush Swallowtail: worn male; Gray Hairstreak: fresh

  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 6
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Monarch 4
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 8
  • Sachem 10

Dave Amadio

Riverwinds scenic trail, West Deptford
Gloucester County, NJ

  • Black Swallowtail 2

C. Herz

Backyard garden, Audubon
Camden County, NJ

'Summer' Spring Azure: Nectaring on sedum; Great Spangled Fritillary: mexican sunflower; Sachem: nectaring on sedum, zinnias

  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 1
  • Sachem 12
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