September 2011 Sightings

Will Kerling

Avalon Golf Links Hole # 17
Cape May County, NJ

a female nectaring on Buddleia and a male nectaring on Dandelion

Sachem 2

Will Kerling

Alexander Avenue - Cape May Point
Cape May County, NJ

Monarch 3

Chris Tonkinson

Coral and Cambridge Avenue Garden
Cape May County, NJ

Monarch 1

Will Kerling

Chrystal Avenue - Cape May Point
Cape May County, NJ

Monarch 2

Chris Tonkinson and Will Kerling

Triangle Garden
Cape May County, NJ

Fiery Skipper: 2 females, 2 males

American Lady 1
Common Buckeye 4
Monarch 12
Fiery Skipper 4
Sachem 2

Will Kerling

Cape May Point State Park
Cape May County, NJ

Pearl Crescent: Nectaring on Mistflower; Common Buckeye: nectaring on Mistflower; Fiery Skipper: nectaring on Mistflower

Pearl Crescent 1
Common Buckeye 11
Monarch 18
Fiery Skipper 1

Roger and Kathy Horn

Cape May Point State Park
Cape May County, NJ

Orange Sulphur 1

Cynthia Allen

My garden in CMCH
Cape May County, NJ

Black Swallowtail: female; Red-banded Hairstreak: fresh; Horace's Duskywing: female

Black Swallowtail 1
Red-banded Hairstreak 1
American Lady 2
Common Buckeye 4
Silver-spotted Skipper 1
Horace's Duskywing 1

Chris Herz

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

Monarch 4

Chris Herz

backyard garden, Audubon
Camden County, NJ

Gray Hairstreak: fresh, on mt. mint; Monarch: plus 3 cats

Cabbage White 1
Gray Hairstreak 1
Monarch 1

Dave Amadio

At work in Cherry Hill
Camden County, NJ

Red-banded Hairstreak: both fresh on goldenrod; Eastern Tailed-Blue: 1 male, 1 female; Peck's Skipper: probably more, but the mowers were at it while I searched

Cabbage White 3
Orange Sulphur 1
Red-banded Hairstreak 2
Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
Pearl Crescent 3
Common Buckeye 2
Peck's Skipper 4

Dave Amadio

Backyard garden, West Deptford
Gloucester County, NJ

fresh male on buddleia

Monarch 1

Chris Tonkinson and Will Kerling

Avalon Beach off 62nd Street
Cape May County, NJ

Orange Sulphur: came straight off the ocean by itself and flew by us to the dune and beyond; Common Buckeye: wandered onto the beach from the dune system

Orange Sulphur 1
Common Buckeye 1

Pat Sutton, Alana Edwards, Teresa Knipper

Karen & Brian Johnson's GDN in Eldora
Cape May County, NJ

White M Hairstreak 1

Pat Sutton, Alana Edwards, Teresa Knipper

CMBO Gardens in Goshen
Cape May County, NJ

in meadow

Common Checkered-Skipper 1

Dale Schweitzer

near Pomona
Atlantic County, NJ

Leonard's Skipper: 2 males and 1 female / all the skippers were attending Liatris and not paying attention to Knapweed; Crossline Skipper: There were between 10 and 20 Polites themistocles and origenes, I didn't seperate them out.