August 2009 Sightings

Will Kerling

Leaming's Run to Avalon Golf links via Rte. 9
Cape May County, NJ

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: see every day, recently; Red Admiral: fresh one / flew rapidly across highway; Monarch: nectaring on Red Sweet Clover

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Monarch
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Sachem

Will Kerling

downtown CMCH
Cape May County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 1

Will Kerling

Leaming's Run
Cape May County, NJ

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: nectaring on Sweet Pepperbush; Question Mark: near rotting tomatoes; Painted Lady: nectaring on Zinnias; Zabulon Skipper: one female

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 7
  • Cabbage White 24
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 6
  • Question Mark 1
  • Painted Lady 4
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 14
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 7
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 4
  • Sachem 8
  • Broad-winged Skipper 30

Will Kerling

Avalon to Rte. 9
Cape May County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 4
  • Monarch 1
  • Broad-winged Skipper 1

Will Kerling

Sea Isle City - Roberts Ave.
Cape May County, NJ

Black Swallowtail: two males and a female; Monarch: stopping at Butterfly Bushes and then moving southward on the Townsends Inlet

  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Monarch 15

Will Kerling

Sea Isle Isle City turnoff to Avalon Golf Links via Rte. 9
Cape May County, NJ

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: plus a roadkill on the shoulder; Cloudless Sulphur: near Rte. 83 and Rte. 9; Red Admiral: crossed highway / fresh; Delaware Skipper: nectaring on Water Willow

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 6
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Monarch 3
  • Sachem 3
  • Delaware Skipper 1
  • Broad-winged Skipper 28

Will Kerling

Avalon, NJ
Cape May County, NJ

Monarch: nectaring on a Butterfly Bush

  • Cabbage White 4
  • Monarch 1

Will Kerling

Sea Isle City to Rte. 9
Cape May County, NJ

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: nectaring on Butterfly Bush; Variegated Fritillary: fresh ones!; American Lady: nectaring on Butterfly Bush

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 9
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 3
  • American Lady 1
  • Monarch 6
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 6
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 3
  • Sachem 1
  • Broad-winged Skipper 34

Dave Amadio

Backyard garden, West Deptford
Gloucester County, NJ

Red-banded Hairstreak: nectaring on mountain mint; Common Buckeye: nectaring on Buddleia; Zabulon Skipper: 4 males 1 female

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Question Mark 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 5
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Little Glassywing 1
  • Sachem 1
  • Broad-winged Skipper 1
  • Dun Skipper 1

Will Kerling

CMCH to Avalon Golf Links via Rte. 9
Cape May County, NJ

  • Monarch 1

Will Kerling

Avalon Golf Links Hole # 17
Cape May County, NJ

  • Sachem 1

Stephen Mason

yard, Voorhees
Camden County, NJ

male and female

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2

Will Kerling

Sea Isle City turnoff to Leaming's Run via Rte. 9
Cape May County, NJ

'Summer' Spring Azure: see more of this species later in the day; Hayhurst's Scallopwing: nectaring on Water Willow; Zabulon Skipper: territorial males

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Monarch 6
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Hayhurst's Scallopwing 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 2
  • Least Skipper 3
  • Sachem 3
  • Broad-winged Skipper 32

Stephen Mason

Katie's yard, Marlton
Burlington County, NJ

Spicebush Swallowtail: worn; Crossline Skipper: worn; Sachem: worn; Zabulon Skipper: male and female

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • American Lady 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 2
  • Crossline Skipper 1
  • Sachem 1

Will Kerling

Rte. 9 to Avalon
Cape May County, NJ

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 4
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Broad-winged Skipper 1

Will Kerling

Avalon, NJ
Cape May County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 9
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Monarch 1

Will Kerling

downtown CMCH
Cape May County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 4
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 1
  • Sachem 1

Will Kerling

Avalon Golf Links Hole # 17
Cape May County, NJ

  • Zabulon Skipper 1
  • Broad-winged Skipper 1

Will Kerling

Avalon Golf Links to Avalon turnoff via Rte. 9
Cape May County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 1

Will Kerling

Sea Isle City, NJ
Cape May County, NJ

  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Monarch 7

Dave Amadio

At work in Cherry Hill
Camden County, NJ

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Will Kerling

Sea Isle to Rte. 9
Cape May County, NJ

Variegated Fritillary: fresh one; Salt Marsh Skipper: surprised to see

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 9
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Monarch 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 12
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 1
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 2
  • Sachem 6
  • Broad-winged Skipper 36

Stephen Mason

yard, Voorhees
Camden County, NJ

Zabulon Skipper: male and female

  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 2

Will Kerling

Leaming's Run
Cape May County, NJ

Painted Lady: good to see this sp. two days in a row

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 5
  • Cabbage White 16
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 2
  • Painted Lady 2
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 7
  • Zabulon Skipper 3
  • Sachem 2
  • Broad-winged Skipper 20

Will Kerling

Avalon to Rte. 9
Cape May County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 16
  • Monarch 1
  • Broad-winged Skipper 8

Teresa Knipper and Chris Tonkinson

CRE Goshen Garden
Cape May County, NJ

American Snout: nectaring on the Mountain Mint

  • Black Swallowtail 6
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 2
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • American Snout 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 4
  • American Lady 3
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Little Wood-Satyr 1
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Monarch 12
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 4
  • Common Sootywing 1
  • Aaron's Skipper 120
  • Zabulon Skipper 3
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 4
  • Swarthy Skipper 1
  • Sachem 1
  • Delaware Skipper 6
  • Broad-winged Skipper 6
  • Dun Skipper 2

Sandra Keller

Mannington Marsh area
Salem County, NJ

Question Mark: All right together and all the summer brood/

  • Question Mark 4
  • Monarch 1

Will Kerling

Sea Isle City - Roberts Ave.
Cape May County, NJ

Black Swallowtail: 2 males and a female; Monarch: nectaring on Butterfly Bush

  • Black Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Monarch 3

Will Kerling

Rte 9 returning to Avalon Golf Links from turnoff to Avalon
Cape May County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 1

Will Kerling

Pickle Pond
Cape May County, NJ

  • Monarch 1
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