Sighting for July 20, 2013
Henry Kindervatter
Horseshoe Bend Preserve
Hunterdon County, NJ
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 45
- Spicebush Swallowtail 15
- Cabbage White 95
- Clouded Sulphur 5
- Orange Sulphur 7
- Juniper Hairstreak 2
- Gray Hairstreak 2
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 10
- Great Spangled Fritillary 3
- Pearl Crescent 3
- Eastern Comma 1
- Red-spotted Purple 3
- Common Wood-Nymph 1
- Monarch 2
- Horace's Duskywing 7
- Wild Indigo Duskywing 30
- Least Skipper 2
- Little Glassywing 1
- Sachem 1
- Dun Skipper 1
Great Spangled Fritillary
Little Glassywing
Juniper Hairstreak
Gray Hairstreak
This was the fifth area (40.49777778, -75.04361111) I covered with Jim Springer. We were again joined by Chris & Paula Williams and were pleasantly surprised by the extent of the fields and the numbers of butterflies and nectar plants. It would have been easy to put several other butterfliers in the fields - there was too much area for the four of us to cover in one hour. We concentrated on two adjacent fields near the parking lot, splitting up and going in slightly different directions (I wandered between the others to keep the tallies up-to-date). It turned out to be the place with the most non-Cabbage white butterfly individuals and the highest overall diversity of the places covered.