Sighting for October 4, 2016
Beth Polvino
North Cape May ~ my yard NABA yard #1151
Cape May County, NJ
- Black Swallowtail 9
- Cabbage White 11
- Orange Sulphur 3
- Cloudless Sulphur 6
- Gray Hairstreak 1
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
- Question Mark 1
- Mourning Cloak 1
- American Lady 3
- Red Admiral 4
- Common Buckeye 14
- Monarch 15
- Horace's Duskywing 1
- Fiery Skipper 1
- Sachem 9
Horace's Duskywing, Monarch caterpillar
Gray Hairstreak
Monarch caterpillars
Mostly overcast but there was a period of 2-3 hrs of more sun. Windy. The monarch cat picture shows 17 cats in one area on my swamp milkweed. I’d estimate 3 dozen Monarch cats & 2 dozen Black Swallowtail cats. All chrysalis continue from both species.