August 2014 Sightings

Brian Johnson

Yard in Eldora
Cape May County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Little Glassywing 1

Will Kerling

Jake's Landing Rd.
Cape May County, NJ

  • Red-spotted Purple 1

Will Kerling

Seashore Rd.
Cape May County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Monarch 1

Will Kerling

Dennisville Wawa
Cape May County, NJ

a male

  • Black Swallowtail 1

Will Kerling

The Meadows-TNC
Cape May County, NJ

Lady sp.: lean toward Painted; Common Wood-Nymph: nectaring on Moountain Mint; Zabulon Skipper: a male

  • American Copper 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Lady sp. 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 3
  • Common Wood-Nymph 3
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Dave Amadio

Backyard garden, West Deptford
Gloucester County, NJ

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: all males; Tawny-edged Skipper: FOY here; Sachem: worn male

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 2
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 3
  • Zabulon Skipper 7
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Sachem 1
  • Broad-winged Skipper 1

Will Kerling

Coral and Cambridge garden
Cape May County, NJ

Zabulon Skipper: a male

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Sandra Keller

Saddler's Woods
Camden County, NJ

Three were at the stream crossing - I managed one good shot.

  • Harvester 5

Ruth Cranmer

Mt Laurel backyard
Burlington County, NJ

Tawny Emperor: In fruit bowl; Silver-spotted Skipper: Photo —->

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 6
  • American Lady 1
  • Tawny Emperor 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 3
  • Zabulon Skipper 3

Pat & Clay Sutton

Sutton GDN in Goshen
Cape May County, NJ

Pipevine Swallowtail: caterpillars still on Dutchman's Pipe vine; Pipevine Swallowtail: chrysalises on screens of screened porch

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Pipevine Swallowtail 10
  • Pipevine Swallowtail 20
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 3
  • Question Mark 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 10
  • Zabulon Skipper 1
  • Broad-winged Skipper 1

Chris Herz

Audubon backyard garden
Camden County, NJ

Black Swallowtail: female; 3 eggs found on parsley & fennel

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Will Kerling

Middle Township Bike Path
Cape May County, NJ

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

Chip Krilowicz

Haddonfield Yard
Camden County, NJ

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1

Dave Amadio

At work in Cherry Hill
Camden County, NJ

Silver-spotted Skipper: nectaring on common arrowood; Zabulon Skipper: nectaring on self heal in a corner not scalped by the mowers

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 2
  • Peck's Skipper 3

Will Kerling

Domestic flower patch S of CRE on Rt. 47
Cape May County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 4

Will Kerling

Downtown CMCH
Cape May County, NJ

Horace's Duskywing: both females; Sachem: a few on Black-eyed Susan; Zabulon Skipper: 3 males, 3 females

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 28
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 3
  • Zabulon Skipper 6
  • Sachem 14
  • Broad-winged Skipper 44

Will Kerling

Goshen to CRE via Rt. 47
Cape May County, NJ

includes a mated pair

  • Monarch 5

Will Kerling

Rt. 47 from Jake's Landing Rd. to Diner
Cape May County, NJ

Tawny-edged Skipper: nectaring on Common Cat's Ear; Zabulon Skipper: 1 male and 1 female

  • Monarch 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 2
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Sachem 1

Jim Dowdell

Yard in Villas
Cape May County, NJ

Variegated Fritillary: female egg laying on Passion Vine

  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Hayhurst's Scallopwing 1

Cynthia Allen

My yard in CMCH
Cape May County, NJ

Black Swallowtail: a female ovipositing on Fennel; Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: both males; Hayhurst's Scallopwing: nectaring on Buddleia; Sachem: a female; Zabulon Skipper: a male

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 7
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • American Lady 4
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 15
  • Hayhurst's Scallopwing 2
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 1
  • Aaron's Skipper 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 1
  • Sachem 1
  • Delaware Skipper 2
  • Broad-winged Skipper 18
  • Dun Skipper 2

Will Kerling

Vicinity of Railroad tracks-Lizard Tail
Cape May County, NJ

White M Hairstreak: nectaring on Sweet Pepperbush; Dion Skipper: species #71 for Lizard Tail Swamp Preserve

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • White M Hairstreak 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Appalachian Brown 14
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 4
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Northern Broken-Dash 1
  • Dion Skipper 12

Will Kerling

Railroad tracks along Magnolia Drive, CMCH
Cape May County, NJ

Zabulon Skipper: 1 male, 1 female; Salt Marsh Skipper: nectaring on Knapweed

  • Salt Marsh Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 2

Shawn Wainwright

In my butterfly garden in Toms River
Ocean County, NJ

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: Photo ——>; Monarch: Caterpillar Photo ——>; Zabulon Skipper: Photo ——>

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 5
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • American Lady 4
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Monarch 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 3
  • Zabulon Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Sachem 4

Dave Amadio

Backyard garden, West Deptford
Gloucester County, NJ

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Will Kerling

Holly Lake
Cape May County, NJ

Zabulon Skipper: all males

  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Monarch 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 23
  • Rare Skipper 1
  • Aaron's Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 3
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 3
  • Northern Broken-Dash 1
  • Sachem 1
  • Broad-winged Skipper 7

Will Kerling

Court House-Dennisville Rd.
Cape May County, NJ

Horace's Duskywing: a female nectaring on Common Cat's Ear; Northern Broken-Dash: nectaring on Sweet Pepperbush

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Northern Broken-Dash 1

Dale Schweitzer

Port Norris
Cumberland County, NJ

  • Hackberry Emperor 2

Will Kerling

Vicinity of Railroad tracks-Lizard Tail
Cape May County, NJ

Dion Skipper: Light rain slowed the butterfly activity here

  • Red-banded Hairstreak 3
  • Appalachian Brown 5
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Dion Skipper 1

Will Kerling

Holly Lake
Cape May County, NJ

Gray Hairstreak: a female egg laying on Chinese Bush Clover; Red-banded Hairstreak: one of these two laid an egg on the ground underneath a leaf after a 20 min. search for the site; digital images of the egg.; Rare Skipper: fairly fresh; Zabulon Skipper: both males

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 2
  • Gray Hairstreak 4
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 12
  • Horace's Duskywing 2
  • Salt Marsh Skipper 2
  • Aaron's Skipper 6
  • Zabulon Skipper 2
  • Rare Skipper 1
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Northern Broken-Dash 2
  • Delaware Skipper 2
  • Broad-winged Skipper 12

Will Kerling

Rt. 47 from Jake's Landing Rd. to CRE
Cape May County, NJ

Zabulon Skipper: males

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 2
  • Delaware Skipper 1
  • Broad-winged Skipper 1
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