August 2009 Sightings

Sandra Keller

NLT's Peek Preserve garden and vicinity.
Cumberland County, NJ

They were everywhere nectaring on a number of different plants. I had 10 species today here. Very nice.

  • Least Skipper 25

Will Kerling

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

Zabulon Skipper: a male and a female

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 9
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • Monarch 6
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 5
  • Zabulon Skipper 2
  • Sachem 4
  • Broad-winged Skipper 32

Stephen Mason

FPP - beginning of Airfield
Burlington County, NJ

Eastern Tailed-Blue: one eaten by female E. Pondhawk

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Monarch 1

Stephen Mason

yard, Voorhees
Camden County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1

Stephen Mason

FPP - "10 trunks" road to lodge end
Burlington County, NJ

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1

Will Kerling

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

Black Swallowtail: a male and a female

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Monarch 7

Will Kerling

Avalon, NJ
Cape May County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 3

Will Kerling

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

Monarch: one nectaring on Winged Sumac

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 9
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Monarch 8
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Sachem 3
  • Broad-winged Skipper 1

Will Kerling

Leaming's Run
Cape May County, NJ

Hayhurst's Scallopwing: butterfly species # 48 for inventory at Leaming's Run; Zabulon Skipper: 3 females

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 8
  • Cabbage White 16
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 9
  • Pearl Crescent 4
  • Question Mark 2
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 17
  • Hayhurst's Scallopwing 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 17
  • Swarthy Skipper 1
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 6
  • Crossline Skipper 6
  • Northern Broken-Dash 1
  • Little Glassywing 3
  • Sachem 14
  • Broad-winged Skipper 14
  • Dun Skipper 2

Dave Amadio

Backyard garden, West Deptford
Gloucester County, NJ

Monarch: also 1 cat; Crossline Skipper: fresh & 1st of year for garden, species #34

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 6
  • Crossline Skipper 1
  • Dun Skipper 1

Will Kerling

Rte. 9 to Avalon
Cape May County, NJ

Zabulon Skipper: 5 male zabs basking in first sunlight together on Sweet Pepperbush / Amazing to see such territorial bugs side by side in such a content way!

  • Cabbage White 3
  • Zabulon Skipper 5
  • Broad-winged Skipper 1
  • Dun Skipper 1

Will Kerling

downtown CMCH
Cape May County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Question Mark 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 2

Will Kerling

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

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: nectaring on honeysuckle; Monarch: nectaring on Winged Sumac

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 6
  • Sachem 1
  • Broad-winged Skipper 6

Will Kerling

Leaming's Run
Cape May County, NJ

Horace's Duskywing: nectaring on orange marigolds; Zabulon Skipper: a female

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 5
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Pearl Crescent 4
  • American Lady 1
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 11
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 10
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 10
  • Crossline Skipper 1
  • Sachem 18
  • Broad-winged Skipper 7
  • Dun Skipper 2

Will Kerling

Rte. 9 To Avalon
Cape May County, NJ

  • Monarch 1

Dave Amadio

Backyard garden, West Deptford
Gloucester County, NJ

Monarch: including a mating pr. & a 4th instar cat on tropical milkweed; Zabulon Skipper: 4 males & 2 females

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Monarch 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 6

Will Kerling

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

Black Swallowtail: a male and a female

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Monarch 5
  • Broad-winged Skipper 1

Will Kerling

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

Black Swallowtail: nectaring on Red Sweet Clover; Orange Sulphur: in farm field; Question Mark: landed on my leg while bicycling; Sachem: becoming common again!!

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Question Mark 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 3
  • Sachem
  • Broad-winged Skipper 5

Dave Amadio

at work in Cherry Hill
Camden County, NJ

Cabbage White: nectaring on dogbane; Monarch: female laying eggs on common milkweed

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Monarch 1

Sandra Keller

My garden at my house in Barrington.
Camden County, NJ

A female. Haven't had a Sachem in my garden in ages.

  • Sachem 1

Chris Tonkinson

CRE Goshen Garden
Cape May County, NJ

Black Swallowtail: a caterpillar found

  • Black Swallowtail 10
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • American Lady 6
  • Common Buckeye 6
  • Monarch 6
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 8
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 6
  • Aaron's Skipper 3
  • Delaware Skipper 4
  • Broad-winged Skipper 30

Will Kerling

Avalon, NJ
Cape May County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 4
  • Orange Sulphur 1

Will Kerling

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

Monarch: nectaring on Winged Sumac; Least Skipper: wandering in the tall grass; Tawny-edged Skipper: very worn

  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • American Lady 36
  • Monarch 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 8
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 2
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Crossline Skipper 1
  • Sachem 14
  • Delaware Skipper 2
  • Broad-winged Skipper 12

Sandra Keller

Nummy's Island
Cape May County, NJ

They were heading south singly. Over a period of 1 1/2 hours. And I wasn't looking all the time.

  • Monarch 20

Will Kerling

downtown CMCH
Cape May County, NJ

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

C. Herz

Gloucester County College (GCC) Comm. garden & field
Gloucester County, NJ

zinnia

  • Black Swallowtail 1

David Lord and Will Kerling

Nanatuxent WMA
Cumberland County, NJ

Gray Hairstreak: nectaring on goldenrod sp.; Red-banded Hairstreak: nectaring on goldenrod sp.; Monarch: a tiny Cat on a milkweed plant; Zabulon Skipper: 2 females

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 11
  • Pearl Crescent 4
  • Red-spotted Purple 3
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Monarch 10
  • Aaron's Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 5
  • Least Skipper 1

David Lord and Will Kerling

field off Hansey Creek Road
Cumberland County, NJ

Southern Cloudywing: in the sun and shade areas along wooded edges; Delaware Skipper: nectaring on purple-flowering vetch

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 11
  • Pearl Crescent 17
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Southern Cloudywing 2
  • Aaron's Skipper 1
  • Crossline Skipper 6
  • Delaware Skipper 1

David Lord and Will Kerling

Rte. 605
Cape May County, NJ

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1

C. Herz

GCC Comm. garden & field
Gloucester County, NJ

Cabbage White: red clover; Clouded Sulphur: red clover; Orange Sulphur: red clover; Eastern Tailed-Blue: white clover; Variegated Fritillary: zinnias; Pearl Crescent: white clover; Painted Lady: zinnias; Monarch: red clover; Silver-spotted Skipper: red clover; Common Checkered-Skipper: most very fresh, on white clover primarily, chicory, red clover; Least Skipper: red clover; Peck's Skipper: red clover; Tawny-edged Skipper: red clover; Sachem: red clover & zinnias

  • Cabbage White 13
  • Clouded Sulphur 3
  • Orange Sulphur 23
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • Variegated Fritillary 2
  • Pearl Crescent 17
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Monarch 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 14
  • Common Sootywing 4
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Sachem 5
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