Sighting for September 10, 2019
Beth Polvino
my yard NABA #1151 & Monarch Waystation #8318
Cape May County, NJ
- Black Swallowtail 7
- Giant Swallowtail 1
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
- Spicebush Swallowtail 1
- Cabbage White 9
- Orange Sulphur 1
- Cloudless Sulphur 6
- Sleepy Orange 1
- Gray Hairstreak 4
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
- 'Summer' Spring Azure 2
- Variegated Fritillary 1
- Question Mark 5
- Eastern Comma 1
- American Lady 8
- Painted Lady 4
- Red Admiral 1
- Common Buckeye 180
- Red-spotted Purple 1
- Monarch 9
- Silver-spotted Skipper 1
- Long-tailed Skipper 1
- Hayhurst's Scallopwing 1
- Horace's Duskywing 4
- Least Skipper 1
- Fiery Skipper 9
- Sachem common
- Brazilian Skipper 1
What another wonderful day. Sunny, 75 with 10 MPH wind. Record high number of species. Common Buckeyes everywhere in the yard. Est count of CB. Counts of butterflies from 1:30 to 2PM. Giant Swallowtail back again. FOY Sleepy Orange for my yard. Red-spotted Purple eggs and caterpillars on a potted small cherry tree. These are first I’ve seen here. Continuing Spicebush Swallowtails caterpillars/chrysalis’s, continuing Brazilian caterpillar and chrysalis.