Sighting for October 15, 2021
Beth Polvino
my yard NABA #1151 & Monarch Waystation #8318
Cape May County, NJ
- Black Swallowtail 6
- Cabbage White 6
- Orange Sulphur 1
- Cloudless Sulphur 5
- Sleepy Orange 1
- Gray Hairstreak 1
- Variegated Fritillary 1
- American Lady 9
- Red Admiral 1
- Common Buckeye 8
- Red-spotted Purple 1
- Monarch 100
- Long-tailed Skipper 2
- Fiery Skipper 11
- Sachem 175
- Ocola Skipper 14
Monarch egg
Monarch caterpillar
Wonderful warm sunny day in the yard with great diversity of butterflies. My FOY Red-spotted Purple seen in the yard which is species 39 for 2021. Still hoping for another species or two to finish out the year. Monarchs came early and flew through all day with about 30 roosting here tonight. I’d estimate >100 Monarchs flew through today and stopped to nectar. Filmed a Monarch caterpillar coming out of it’s egg. So cool to actually watch through the macro lens of my camera. Clouds of skippers with a low estimate count of 175 for sachem skippers.