Sighting for September 9, 2012
Steven Rosenthal and Rich Poricelli
Floyd Bennett Field - Gateway National Rec. Area, Brooklyn
Kings County, NY
- Black Swallowtail 4
- Cabbage White common
- Clouded Sulphur common
- Orange Sulphur common
- Cloudless Sulphur 1-2
- American Copper 1 fresh
- Eastern Tailed-Blue common
- Pearl Crescent 4
- American Lady 2
- Painted Lady abundant
- Common Buckeye 3
- Red-spotted Purple 3
- Monarch common
- Fiery Skipper common
- Sachem common
- Zabulon Skipper common
from community gardens and nearby cricket field/nature area. painted ladies remain abundant, though now mostly worn . quite a few individuals of various species were tattered or missing entire wings.