May 2022 Sightings

Jackie Parker

Hidden Valley section of Higbee Beach WMA
Cape May County, NJ

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • Spring Azure 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Monarch 3
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Tom Bailey

Greenwood Forest WMA
Ocean County, NJ

10:45 am to 2:10 pm. Partly sunny early then mostly cloudy when finished. Breezy with a brief rain shower @1:30. Temps in low 70s.

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Brown Elfin 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 4
  • American Lady 10
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Monarch 2
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 1
  • Sachem 4

Therese Hurter

EHT Nature Reserve
Atlantic County, NJ

Sunny and warm, around noon. Red Spotted Purple was flying through wooded area.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1

Wijbren Huisman

Tall Pines State Preserve, Sewell
Gloucester County, NJ

Observation: 12.30-14.00

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 4
  • Zabulon Skipper 1
  • Least Skipper 6
  • Sachem 1

Least Skipper

Zabulon Skipper

Dolores Amesbury

My yard in CMCH
Cape May County, NJ

R-S Purple joined Question Mark on fruit dish.

[Congratulations, DA on our first backyard "Swallowtail Sweep" of 2022 (all three of our regular s'tails in one garden on one day). jc]

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Azure, sp. 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • Question Mark 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 3
  • Sachem 2

Eileen Bennett

Waretown backyard - Monarch Waystation# 10016
Ocean County, NJ

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Common Buckeye 1

Teresa Knipper

Higbee’s WMA
Cape May County, NJ

Quick morning walk

  • Cabbage White 3
  • Question Mark 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Dave DeSarno

Manasquan WMA (Ridge Rd.)
Ocean County, NJ

3:30-5:30 sunny and hot. Possibly 1 black swallowtail as well. Some wildflowers blooming in the meadows but most activity was in the forested areas.

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 7
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 8

Spicebush Swallowtail

Chris Herz

Audubon garden
Camden County, NJ

Monarch tasting c. Milkweed and black ST around fennel.

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Pat & Clay Sutton, Wendy & Dennis Allen

Swainton Bike Path
Cape May County, NJ

  • Eastern Pine Elfin 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1

Wijbren Huisman

S.J. Tech Park, Glassboro
Gloucester County, NJ

Observation: 1.00-2.30
High counts of Cabbage White.
My first sighting of a Monarch this year.

[Our log's 3rd painted lady for 2022 and the first outside CMY. jc]

  • Black Swallowtail 5
  • Cabbage White 30
  • Clouded Sulphur 3
  • Orange Sulphur 4
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 4
  • Zabulon Skipper 2
  • Least Skipper 2
  • Sachem 3

Painted Lady

Jeanine Apgar

Makepeace Lake WMA
Atlantic County, NJ

Late morning biking, sunny

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 7
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Azure, sp. 1
  • Mourning Cloak 1

Spicebush Swallowtail

Teresa Knipper

New bike trail north of Goshen Swainton road
Cape May County, NJ

Walk between 10-11:30 with Pat Sutton

  • Black Swallowtail 4
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 6
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • American Lady 2
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 2
  • Little Wood-Satyr 10

Pat and Clay Sutton, Teresa Knipper

Sutton GDN in Goshen
Cape May County, NJ

2 newborn Monarch caterpillars ("just hatched") on Common Milkweed. Sizable American Lady caterpillar on Field Pussy Toes.

[Our first photo'd monarch cat of 2022 – presumably "Generation 2," grandchild of Mexican over-winterers. jc]

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • American Lady 0
  • Little Wood-Satyr 2
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Monarch

Monarch caterpillar

Claire Campbell

Duchess Avenue Backyard
Burlington County, NJ

  • Monarch 1

Chris Herz

Audubon garden
Camden County, NJ

Zabulon a female.

[Congratulations to Chris on our log's second "Swallowtail Sweep" of 2022 – all three regular swallowtails in one yard on one day. jc]

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Teresa Knipper and Pat Sutton

Lizard Tail
Cape May County, NJ

[Our first crossline skipper of 2022. This report and Dolores Amesbury's Aaron's gives us 55 species for 2022 as we head into June – with one last day in May. Can we add another FOY today? jc]

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 5
  • Frosted Elfin 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 2
  • American Lady 3
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Viceroy 2
  • Little Wood-Satyr 4
  • Monarch 1
  • Northern Cloudywing 1
  • Crossline Skipper 1

Crossline Skipper

Crossline Skipper

Frosted Elfin

David L. Amadio

Backyard butterfly garden, West Deptford
Gloucester County, NJ

Also had a swallowtail briefly, likely spicebush.

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 2

Tom Bailey & Brian Johnson

Wharton SF
Burlington County, NJ

Late morning walk. Sunny & hot.

  • Azure, sp. 1
  • Dusted Skipper 2

Dusted Skipper

Wijbren Huisman

Tall Pines State Preserve, Sewell
Gloucester County, NJ

Observation: 9.15-10.45

  • Cabbage White 5
  • American Lady 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 5
  • Zabulon Skipper 6
  • Least Skipper 4
  • Sachem 2

Dolores Amesbury

My yard in CMCH
Cape May County, NJ

No swallowtails today!

[But our log's FOY Aaron's skipper for 2022. Good find! jc]

  • Cabbage White 2
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Monarch 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 2
  • Aaron's Skipper 1

Aaron's Skipper

Zabulon Skipper

Jennifer Bulava

Laurel Run Park, Delran
Burlington County, NJ

9:00-10:30am

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Orange Sulphur 4
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Monarch 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1

Eileen Bennett

Waretown backyard - Monarch Waystation# 10016
Ocean County, NJ

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 1
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