August 2009 Sightings

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

Court House/Dennisville Road
Cape May County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Southern Cloudywing 1

Will Kerling

Lizard Tail
Cape May County, NJ

Crossline Skipper: a fresh male

  • Cabbage White 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Southern Cloudywing 1
  • Crossline Skipper 1

Will Kerling

Rte. 47 from intersection with Court House/Dennisville Road to CRE Goshen
Cape May County, NJ

Silver-spotted Skipper: nectaring in a Mimosa Tree

  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1

Stephen Mason

"Colletti Site" Brendan Byrne State Park
Burlington County, NJ

  • Red-banded Hairstreak 2
  • Red-spotted Purple 3

Dave Amadio

Backyard garden, West Deptford
Gloucester County, NJ

'Summer' Spring Azure: nectaring on anise hyssop & joe-pye weed; Red Admiral: on rotting fruit, buddleia, & mountain mint; Wild Indigo Duskywing: fresh; Zabulon Skipper: 4 males 2 females

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Question Mark 2
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 4
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 6
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Northern Broken-Dash 1
  • Broad-winged Skipper 1
  • Dun Skipper 1

David Lord and Will Kerling

CRE Goshen Garden
Cape May County, NJ

Black Swallowtail: males and a few females; Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: one dark form female; American Snout: both nectaring on the Mountain Mint - at great length; Pearl Crescent: a mated pair; Monarch: a mated pair in a Butterfly Bush; Horace's Duskywing: a female / nectaring on Mountain Mint; Sachem: mostly faded females; Delaware Skipper: a mated pair; Zabulon Skipper: 3 females

  • Black Swallowtail 10
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 6
  • Cabbage White 22
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 14
  • Juniper Hairstreak 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 5
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 12
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 3
  • American Snout 2
  • Pearl Crescent 26
  • Question Mark 3
  • American Lady 14
  • Common Buckeye 30
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Common Wood-Nymph 10
  • Monarch 8
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 20
  • Hayhurst's Scallopwing 2
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Common Sootywing 7
  • Rare Skipper 2
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 28
  • Aaron's Skipper 22
  • Zabulon Skipper 32
  • Swarthy Skipper 18
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 2
  • Crossline Skipper 2
  • Little Glassywing 2
  • Sachem 7
  • Delaware Skipper 18
  • Broad-winged Skipper 250+
  • Dun Skipper 5

Will Kerling

downtown CMCH
Cape May County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 2
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Sachem 1
  • Broad-winged Skipper 1

Dave Amadio

Backyard garden, West Deptford
Gloucester County, NJ

observed mating & egg laying on swamp milkweed

  • Monarch 2

Mike Logan

CRE Goshen Garden
Cape May County, NJ

American Snout: Favored Mountain Mint

  • Black Swallowtail 7
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 8
  • Cabbage White 10
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • American Snout 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Question Mark 1
  • American Lady 5
  • Common Wood-Nymph 2
  • Monarch 15
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 22
  • Southern Cloudywing 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Common Sootywing 1
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 3
  • Rare Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 18
  • Aaron's Skipper 3
  • Sachem 2
  • Delaware Skipper 9
  • Broad-winged Skipper 24
  • Dun Skipper 1

Sandra Keller

Riverwinds - Scenic Trail
Gloucester County, NJ

American Snout: On the parking lot mud. My first of year.; Hackberry Emperor: Right in the parking lot area.; Delaware Skipper: 17 species here at mid day.

  • American Copper 4
  • American Snout 1
  • Hackberry Emperor 3
  • Hayhurst's Scallopwing 1
  • Delaware Skipper 1

Will Kerling

Avalon Golf Links Hole # 17
Cape May County, NJ

Zabulon Skipper: 3 females

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 8
  • Zabulon Skipper 10
  • Broad-winged Skipper 4
  • Dun Skipper 3

Will Kerling

Maurice River Bridge next to Mauricetown
Cumberland County, NJ

  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Sachem 1

Stephen Mason

yard Voorhees
Camden County, NJ

  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1

C. Herz

Audubon, Backyard garden
Camden County, NJ

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2

Sandra Keller

D.A.'s garden
Gloucester County, NJ

Zabulon Skipper: All over that garden. One female the rest males.; Dun Skipper: Female

  • Zabulon Skipper 10
  • Dun Skipper 1

Mike Logan

Beaver Dam Rd.
Cape May County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 2

C. Herz & M. Russell

Riverwinds Community Center Field & Kayak Boat Launch
Gloucester County, NJ

  • Silver-spotted Skipper 13

C. Herz & M. Russell

Riverwinds Community Center Field
Gloucester County, NJ

Broad-winged Skipper: on purple loosestrife

  • Orange Sulphur 16
  • American Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Duskywing sp. 1
  • Common Sootywing 3
  • Zabulon Skipper 2
  • Broad-winged Skipper 16

Stephen Mason

yard, Voorhees
Camden County, NJ

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: female, worn; Monarch: worn; Silver-spotted Skipper: worn

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1

Shawn Wainwright

Ocean County Administration Offices in Toms River
Ocean County, NJ

American Copper: Good day for them, 13 all together for the day

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • American Copper 6
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 2

Shawn Wainwright

Silver Ridge in Toms River
Ocean County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 3
  • Orange Sulphur 1

C. Herz & M. Russell

Riverwinds -- Kayak Boat Launch
Gloucester County, NJ

on damp mud

  • Question Mark 1

C. Herz & M. Russell

Riverwinds - Kayak Boat Launch
Gloucester County, NJ

on purple loosestrife

  • Hayhurst's Scallopwing 1

J&J Connor

Our garden, Port Republic
Atlantic County, NJ

'Summer' Spring Azure: all worn; 'Summer' Spring Azure: chasing & courting; Emperor sp.: maybe tawny emp, but too-brief look; Little Glassywing: both fresh; Little Glassywing: fresh; Zabulon Skipper: both sexes, courtship

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 12
  • Cabbage White 15
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 2
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 3
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 8
  • American Lady 2
  • American Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Emperor sp. 1
  • Monarch 5
  • Monarch 4
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 6
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 8
  • Zabulon Skipper 10
  • Zabulon Skipper 10
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Little Glassywing 1
  • Little Glassywing 2
  • Dun Skipper 1

Shawn Wainwright

My Parents Butterfly garden in Toms River
Ocean County, NJ

Little Glassywing: 22 species for the day!

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Cabbage White 4
  • American Copper 7
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 2
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • American Lady 2
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Little Glassywing 1
  • Sachem 4
  • Broad-winged Skipper 2

C. Herz

Audubon Backyard garden
Camden County, NJ

Monarch: 1 fresh female (just released); Zabulon Skipper: male

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 2
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Monarch 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 1
  • Sachem 1

C. Herz & M. Russell

Riverwinds Scenic Trail & Community Center Field & Kayak Boat Launch
Gloucester County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 13

C. Herz & M. Russell

Riverwinds Scenic Trail & Community Center Field
Gloucester County, NJ

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 8
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Viceroy 3

Shawn Wainwright

Cattus Island
Ocean County, NJ

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 2
  • Monarch 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 2
  • Northern Broken-Dash 1
  • Little Glassywing 1
  • Broad-winged Skipper 8
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