Sighting for April 23, 2012
Harry Zirlin
Lakehurst, Greenwood WMA, and Warren Grove,
Ocean County, NJ
- Cabbage White 3
- Falcate Orangetip 4
- Orange Sulphur 2
- American Copper 4
- Brown Elfin 5+
- Hoary Elfin 15+
- Eastern Pine Elfin 5+
- Juniper Hairstreak 2
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
- Spring Azure 3
- Pearl Crescent 1
- Question Mark 4
- American Lady 40+
- Red Admiral 1
- Juvenal's Duskywing 15
- Horace's Duskywing 1
- Cobweb Skipper 2
One of the Azures was very fresh and flying around Prunus serotina — American Ladies were not around at all on April 8. They looked like a mix of fairly worn males and some fresher females. One of the Question Marks appeared to be a freshly emerged summer form. Horace’s DW is only my second spring record for Jersey pine barrens.