Sighting for October 6, 2017
Steven Glynn
Private commercial nursery growing field near Millville
Cumberland County, NJ
- Checkered White 2
- Cabbage White 8
- Clouded Sulphur 4
- Orange Sulphur 19
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
- Variegated Fritillary 3
- Pearl Crescent 3
- American Lady 4
- Painted Lady common
- Common Buckeye abundant
- Monarch 3
- Common Checkered-Skipper 3
- Least Skipper 2
- Sachem 7
Checkered White
Checkered White
Variegated Fritillary
Area has held a Checkered White colony for the past five years. A final check, after a major section of the area was cleared and graded, found Checkered Whites still flyng and a female ovipositing. Happy to think the colony will persist into 2018.