May 2013 Sightings

Vincent Corsello

Appalachian Trail Lands From Canal Rd To The Base Of Wawayanda Mountain,Vernon
Sussex County, NJ

The Eastern Pine Elfins are the first sightings of this species at this location.

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 29
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Eastern Pine Elfin 3
  • Juniper Hairstreak 13
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • Spring Azure 3
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Eastern Comma 2
  • Mourning Cloak 2
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1

Jim Wilkinson

Trinity Church Cemetery, Elkridge
Howard County, MD

  • Zebra Swallowtail 1
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Eastern Pine Elfin 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 8
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1

Eastern Pine Elfin

Red-banded Hairstreak

Spicebush Swallowtail

Vincent Corsello

Appalachian Trail Lands From Around Canal Rd To The Base Of Wawayanda Mountain,Vernon
Sussex County, NJ

  • Black Swallowtail 7
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 51
  • Falcate Orangetip 3
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Eastern Pine Elfin 1
  • Juniper Hairstreak 6
  • Spring Azure 3
  • Meadow Fritillary 2
  • Mourning Cloak 6
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 11
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1

Jim Wilkinson

Centennial Park
Howard County, MD

Cloudless Sulphur was very early

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 4
  • Clouded Sulphur 5
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1

Matthew O'Donnell

Occoquan Regional Park
Fairfax County, VA

At least 6 Juvenal’s Duskywing and one Horace’s. Many territorial duskywings.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 9
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Eastern Pine Elfin 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 35
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 6
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Pepper and Salt Skipper 1

Pepper and Salt Skipper

Eastern Pine Elfin

Rob Santry

McCloud Bridge/Gilman Road at the north end of Lake Shasta
Shasta County, CA

Today is a nice warm spring day at 85 degrees. I photographed butterflies for three hours at this lovely spot. This locale is a reliable spot to see and photograph Indra Swallowtail which started appearing last week and will last ‘till the first week of June. I also saw 6 swallowtail species within a quarter mile stretch of road, which also makes this a great spot.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail Common
  • Anise Swallowtail 2
  • Indra Swallowtail 8
  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Two-tailed Swallowtail 3
  • Pale Swallowtail 4
  • Mustard White 4
  • Gray Marble 2
  • Brown Elfin 1
  • Spring Azure Common
  • Northern Checkerspot 15
  • Variable Checkerspot 2
  • Common Buckeye 6
  • Lorquin's Admiral 4
  • California Sister 20
  • Monarch 1
  • Propertius Duskywing Common
  • Rural Skipper 4
  • Common Roadside-Skipper 4

Indra Swallowtail

Jim Flynn

Umtanum Rd.
Kittitas County, WA

  • Anise Swallowtail 3
  • Two-tailed Swallowtail 1
  • Mourning Cloak 3

Mourning Cloak

Anise Swallowtail

Rick Borchelt

Sideling Hill Rest Area off I-68
Washington County, MD

10:30 am for about 15 minutes. Breezy and cool, about 60F. Nectar sources were vetch and dandelion. Most species were hilltopping or nectaring low to the ground out of the wind.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White common
  • Orange Sulphur common
  • Dreamy Duskywing 2
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 2
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 4

Rick Borchelt

Green Ridge State Forest
Allegany County, MD

Sunny and cool, mid 60sF during the afternoon. Count includes a number of areas within the Forest boundary from a full day of exploration. Nectar sources included ragwort, phlox, violets, and dwarf cinquefoil.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 2
  • Zebra Swallowtail 5
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 6
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White abundant
  • Olympia Marble 6
  • Falcate Orangetip common
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Orange Sulphur common
  • Sleepy Orange 1
  • American Copper 3
  • Henry's Elfin 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue abundant
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 2
  • Silvery Blue 7
  • Meadow Fritillary 3
  • Pearl Crescent 4
  • Question Mark 1
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • American Lady 2
  • Northern Cloudywing 1
  • Dreamy Duskywing 4
  • Sleepy Duskywing 2
  • Juvenal's Duskywing abundant
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 2
  • Common Roadside-Skipper 1

Falcate Orangetip

Patrick C McCulloch

Near Laguna & Ellis, SF's Western Addition.
San Francisco County, CA

On a warm day in S.F., I was walking home from the Geary St Post
Office. There was a profusion of sidewalk flowers, and up popped an old friend, a Gulf Fritillary. Not a fresh specimen, I thought it was a bit worn.

  • Gulf Fritillary 1

Jim Wilkinson

Woods near Dorsey Run Road
Howard County, MD

Also one unidentified Duskywing species

  • Zebra Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 2

John Eric DiOrio

Heislerville, Cumberland County
Cumberland County, NJ

Looks like a new hatchling, drying its wings in the sun.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1

Michael Diederich

Ward Pound Ridge Preserve, Pound Ridge, Westchester County, New York
Westchester County, NY

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Eastern Pine Elfin 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 15

Vincent Corsello

Appalachian Trail Lands From Around Canal Rd To The Base Of Wawayanda Mountain,Vernon
Sussex County, NJ

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 17
  • Falcate Orangetip 3
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Juniper Hairstreak 4
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • Spring Azure 2
  • Meadow Fritillary 1
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Mourning Cloak 3
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 3

Rob Santry

Cline Gulch /Hoadley Peaks Road
Shasta County, CA

Ray Bruun and I worked the Cline Gulch BLM lands near the town of French Gulch. We finished up on the Hoadley Peaks Road at the county line.
The Western Sulphur is an early record for California.

  • Anise Swallowtail 1
  • Two-tailed Swallowtail 1
  • Pale Swallowtail 1
  • Mustard White Common
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Sara Orangetip Common
  • Gray Marble 10
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Western Sulphur 1
  • Gorgon Copper 1
  • Bramble Hairstreak 5
  • Brown Elfin 3
  • Boisduval's Blue 7
  • Callippe Fritillary 3
  • Northern Checkerspot Common
  • Mylitta Crescent 1
  • Lorquin's Admiral Common
  • California Sister Common
  • Common Ringlet Common
  • Monarch 1
  • Propertius Duskywing Common
  • Common Roadside-Skipper 2

Bramble Hairstreak

Glenn Koppel

Great Dismal Swamp NWR, Washington Ditch
Suffolk city, VA

Cold, very windy and overcast, little activity

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Gemmed Satyr 1
  • Carolina Satyr 16

Gemmed Satyr

Rick Borchelt

Frederick Municipal Watershed Forest, Gambrill Park Road
Frederick County, MD

Tom Stock, Beth Johnson and I visited a powerline right-of-way along a ridge in Frederick Forest to follow up on an earlier foray that was cut short by rain. Under sunny skies and breezy conditions, the temperature hovered in the low 60’s F. The powerline cut traverses scrub oak-pine-mountain laurel habitat and exposes a lot of rock. Brown Elfin photo by Beth.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 11
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Brown Elfin 27
  • Eastern Pine Elfin 1
  • White M Hairstreak 6
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Spring Azure 2
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • Dreamy Duskywing 7
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 14
  • Horace's Duskywing 1

Brown Elfin

Jeanette Klodzen

Antelope Island State Park
Davis County, UT

2 unidentified checkerspots
1 unidentified Lady

  • Anise Swallowtail 4
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Common Checkered-Skipper superabundant
  • Juba Skipper 3

Harry Zirlin

North of lakehurst
Ocean County, NJ

In addition to species listed by Allan Loudell, I had a female Horace’s DW. First brood is either less common than second brood here or goes unrecorded in the midst of Juvenal’s.

  • Horace's Duskywing 1

Curtis A. Lehman

Youghiogheny River Trail
Fayette County, PA

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 15
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 12
  • West Virginia White 5
  • Cabbage White 8
  • Falcate Orangetip 4
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • White M Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Spring Azure 3
  • Meadow Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 5
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 7
  • Dreamy Duskywing 3
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 12
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 6

White M Hairstreak

Falcate Orangetip

Allan R. Loudell

One mile NW of Warren Grove - Open field near telecommunications towers
Ocean County, NJ

Noon–2 p.m., 61—63 degrees, part of annual field trip of Newark Entomological Society

  • Brown Elfin 2
  • Hoary Elfin 40+
  • Sleepy Duskywing 1
  • Cobweb Skipper 2

Allan R. Loudell

Railroad Tracks south of Lakehurst
Ocean County, NJ

10–11 a.m. — 60 degrees.

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 10
  • Spring Azure 2
  • Pearl Crescent 15

Allan Loudell

Off Route 547 north of Lakehurst Naval Air Station
Ocean County, NJ

2:30–4 p.m., still rather cool & breezy

  • Cabbage White 20
  • Falcate Orangetip 20+
  • American Copper 7
  • Juniper Hairstreak 10
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 9
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 2

Mike Reese

Brockway Rd.
Jackson County, WI

  • Spring Azure 1
  • American Lady 1

Rich Kelly, Seth Ausubel, Patricia Aitken

Sterling Forest State Park
Orange County, NY

  • Cabbage White 8
  • Falcate Orangetip 10
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Brown Elfin 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 7
  • Spring Azure 1
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • Eastern Comma 2
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 65

Barb Sendelbach

Albany Pine Bush Preserve
Albany County, NY

1 Duskywing, probably Wild Indigo

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Frosted Elfin 6
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1

Frosted Elfin

Frosted Elfin

Matthew O'Donnell

Occoquan Regional Park
Fairfax County, VA

Many duskywing sp.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 40
  • Pearl Crescent 4
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Northern Cloudywing 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 1

Northern Cloudywing

Rick Borchelt

Soldiers Delight Natural Environment Area
Baltimore County, MD

Field trip led by Dick Smith through this serpentine barrens preserve. Sky was clear and sunny, light breeze, cool (63F.) Cress, violets, and chickweed were principal nectar sources. In the field 2 pm - 4 pm.

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Falcate Orangetip 1
  • American Copper 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 6
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 4
  • Cobweb Skipper 4

Cobweb Skipper

American Copper

Curtis A. Lehman

Green Ridge State Forest
Allegany County, MD

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 3
  • Zebra Swallowtail 15
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 9
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 6
  • Cabbage White 5
  • Falcate Orangetip 5
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Eastern Pine Elfin 1
  • Juniper Hairstreak 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 7
  • Spring Azure 5
  • Silvery Blue 4
  • Meadow Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 4
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 5
  • Sleepy Duskywing 12
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 8
  • Common Roadside-Skipper 1

Sleepy Duskywing

Silvery Blue

Juniper Hairstreak

Zebra Swallowtail

Vincent Corsello

Appalachian Trail Lands From Around Canal Rd To The Base Of Wawayanda Mountain,Vernon
Sussex County, NJ

First Giant Swallowtail of the season.

  • Black Swallowtail 5
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Cabbage White 35
  • Falcate Orangetip 8
  • Clouded Sulphur 11
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Eastern Pine Elfin 1
  • Juniper Hairstreak 7
  • Spring Azure 2
  • Meadow Fritillary 2
  • Pearl Crescent 12
  • Mourning Cloak 4
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 11
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 2

Carole Mebus

Towpath, Delaware Canal State Park near Jugtown Hill Road
Bucks County, PA

We found this juniper hairstreak on a birding walk this morning at Giving Pond Recreation Area which is part of Delaware Canal State Park. It is nectaring on garlic mustard, which, as an invasive, we keep pulling out.

  • Juniper Hairstreak 1

Juniper Hairstreak

John Lampkin

Lily Pond, Harriman St. Park
Rockland County, NY

Weekly survey. Temps 61 -67
Cobweb Skippers were in the same location as last year, appearing right on schedule.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 4
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Spring Azure 4
  • Pearl Crescent 17
  • Mourning Cloak 2
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 22
  • Cobweb Skipper 5

Cobweb Skipper

Jim Flynn

Rock Candy Mt./Capitol Forest
Thurston County, WA

Late afternoon visit around 5 P.M. Our first time visiting this site for butterflies.

  • Mustard White 3

Mustard White

Inga Kemp

Hardwick
Warren County, NJ

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 6
  • Spring Azure 2

Jim Wilkinson

Trinity Church Cemetery, Elkridge
Howard County, MD

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 6
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1

Black Swallowtail

Rob Santry

Erskine Creek Road/Lake Isabella
Kern County, CA

Erskine Creek Road is a well known locale for Veined Blue. I was a little worried that I wouldn’t see any butterflies at all as it was cool and rainy all week. By two o’clock it started to sprinkle. But, there was a three hour window around noon, and the Veined Blues came out to nectar.

  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 5
  • Pale Swallowtail 3
  • Acmon Blue 2
  • Veined Blue 9
  • Leanira Checkerspot 2
  • Northern Checkerspot 3
  • Variable Checkerspot 2
  • Lorquin's Admiral 3
  • Common Ringlet 7
  • Rural Skipper 1

Veined Blue

Veined Blue

Veined Blue

Michael Diederich

Chappaqua Power Cut, Off Old Chappaqua Road, Chappaqua, New York
Westchester County, NY

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Cabbage White 16
  • Clouded Sulphur 7
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 7
  • Pearl Crescent 14
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 2

John Lampkin

Lily Pond, Harriman St. Park
Rockland County, NY

Weekly survey.
Warm 70 +
Surprisingly, no Cobweb Skippers at the usual spot

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 9
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Spring Azure 2
  • Pearl Crescent 13
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 33

Rob Santry

Upper Kern River Canyon/Sherman Pass Road/Sequoia National Monument
Tulare County, CA

This was the first sunny day after four days of rain. The lower elevations of Sherman Pass Road were still open and the buckwheat was blooming. We saw five species of blues today and with yesterdays Veined Blues, we had a total of six species of blues for the trip!

  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Square-spotted Blue 1
  • Dotted Blue 12
  • Boisduval's Blue 1
  • Acmon Blue 2
  • Lupine Blue 5
  • Northern Checkerspot 4
  • Lorquin's Admiral 1
  • Common Ringlet 6
  • Monarch 1
  • Common Sootywing 1
  • Rural Skipper 2

Square-spotted Blue

Dotted Blue

Lupine Blue

Jeanette Klodzen

Grandeur Peak Trail - Millcreek Canyon
Salt Lake County, UT

  • Anise Swallowtail
  • Spring White
  • Sara Orangetip
  • Spring Azure
  • Silvery Blue
  • Satyr Comma
  • Mourning Cloak

Harry Zirlin

Warren grove WMA and mm 9 on RT 72 ("Chatsworth")
Ocean County, NJ

Still low numbers despite a hot (80) and sunny day. A photographer I bumped into at Hessel’s spot on 72 says he got some shots of one but I did not see any despite sand Myrtle in good bloom. A fresh male azure could be an early emerger Summer Azure or the thing referred to as Atlantic Holly Azure but, in any event, not a Spring Azure. I did see one very worn and old Spring Azure

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 4
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Brown Elfin 10
  • Hoary Elfin 20
  • Eastern Pine Elfin 8
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
  • Spring Azure 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 15
  • Cobweb Skipper 2

Jeanette Klodzen

Mueller Park Trail to Big Rock (and back)
Davis County, UT

Unidentified Yellow Swallowtail (not Anise)

  • Anise Swallowtail 3
  • Sara Orangetip common
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Mourning Cloak 2
  • Rocky Mountain Duskywing 3
  • Juba Skipper 10+

Thomas Jantscher

Donnellson Unit, Shimek State Forest
Lee County, IA

Sightings recorded over 1 hour 45 minutes.
Weather: 56°F-61°F, clear, windy
Habitat: Gravel road and trail through hilly mature oak-hickory woods with stream.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • Pearl Crescent 40
  • American Lady 2
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 5
  • Horace's Duskywing 1

Pearl Crescent

Horace's Duskywing

Juvenal's Duskywing

Jim Wilkinson

North Carolina Estuarine Research Preserve, Corolla
Currituck County, NC

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Painted Lady 2
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Gemmed Satyr 3

Red Admiral

Gemmed Satyr

Shirley D'Addio

Upper Coyote Ridge Trail in Portola Redwoods State Park
San Mateo County, CA

Sighting of 10 to 15 of Pacific Fritillary (Boloria epithore) over a distance of about a mile.
Terrain is wooded (redwood, douglas fir, madrone, wild raspberry, poison oak and huckleberry bushes) coastal ridges along creeks.
No photo available. Time 11 am to noon.
Elevation 600 to 1000 feet.

Landing in sunny patches near wild forgetmenot flowers

  • Pacific Fritillary 10-15

Jim Wilkinson

Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge
Dare County, NC

  • Black Swallowtail 12
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Southern Pearly-eye 1
  • Carolina Satyr 1

Carolina Satyr

Southern Pearly-eye

John Lampkin

Lily Pond, Harriman St. Park
Rockland County, NY

Weekly survey
Sun to overcast - 52 - 54
Still some fliers despite the cold

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Pearl Crescent 15
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 12

Mike Reese

Bowers Creek Fishery Area
Waushara County, WI

First ones of the year!

  • Mustard White 3

Bob Grosek

Broome County
Broome County, NY

  • Cabbage White 7
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1

Pearl Crescent

Rob Santry

Cline Gulch Road near the town of French Gulch
Shasta County, CA

I went up to Cline Gulch Road to look for a first-of-season Lindsey’s Skipper and found three. Callippe Fritillary numbers are increasing. Also, I saw eight Gray Marbles which may be the most I’ve seen in one day at this locale!

  • Clodius Parnassian 3
  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Gray Marble 8
  • Gorgon Copper 1
  • Brown Elfin 2
  • Boisduval's Blue 5
  • Acmon Blue 2
  • Callippe Fritillary 6
  • Northern Checkerspot 6
  • Mylitta Crescent 1
  • Variable Checkerspot 4
  • California Tortoiseshell 3
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Lorquin's Admiral 5
  • California Sister Abundant
  • Common Ringlet 7
  • Propertius Duskywing 5
  • Lindsey's Skipper 3

California Sister

Gray Marble

Bob Grosek

Mostly Whitney Point, NY area
Broome County, NY

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • West Virginia White 5
  • Cabbage White 10
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 2
  • Spring Azure 8
  • Meadow Fritillary 60
  • Pearl Crescent 6
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Sleepy Duskywing 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 1

Meadow Fritillary

Vincent Corsello

Carlton Village Apts, Hardyston
Sussex County, NJ

  • American Snout 1

Vincent Corsello

Appalachian Trail Lands From Canal Rd To The Base Of Wawayanda Mountain,Vernon
Sussex County, NJ

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 5
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 15
  • Falcate Orangetip 20
  • Clouded Sulphur 9
  • Juniper Hairstreak 11
  • Spring Azure 2
  • Pearl Crescent 24
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Mourning Cloak 6
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 3
  • Zabulon Skipper 2

John Lampkin

Lily Pond, Harriman St. Park
Rockland County, NY

Weekly survey.
Temps 65-72 with bright sun
What a difference fifteen degrees can make!

  • Cabbage White 5
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • American Copper 6
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
  • Pearl Crescent 23
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 32
  • Cobweb Skipper 2

Matthew O'Donnell

Hondo Canyon
Bernalillo County, NM

Surprisingly few butterflies. Chokecherry was the major nectar source.

  • Two-tailed Swallowtail 3
  • Cloudless Sulphur 1
  • Great Purple Hairstreak 1
  • Rocky Mountain Duskywing 8

Rob Santry

Volta Powerhouse / 2 miles northwest of Manton
Shasta County, CA

Ray Bruun and I worked this foothill riparian area looking for Callippe Fritillaries, which there were none. Elevation is 2200’

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 6
  • Western Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Pale Swallowtail 1
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • Sylvan Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • Spring Azure 6
  • Acmon Blue 2
  • Northern Checkerspot 3
  • Variable Checkerspot 8
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • Common Buckeye 2
  • Lorquin's Admiral 3
  • Common Ringlet 6
  • Common Wood-Nymph 2
  • Monarch 1
  • Rural Skipper 1
  • Umber Skipper 3

Umber Skipper

Variable Checkerspot

Harry Zirlin

Lakehurst and Warren Grove
Ocean County, NJ

Terrible weather - -no sun and some rain - - but had already made plans with Steve and Hilary Rosenthal based on the forecast which turned out totally wrong. hoary Elfin pretty late. It was worn and Steve had to take my word, more or less, that it was his lifer Hoary. Red-banded HS FOY

  • Hoary Elfin 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
  • American Lady 1

Curtis A. Lehman

Oil Creek State Park
Venango County, PA

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 7
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 9
  • Cabbage White 8
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • White M Hairstreak 1
  • Spring Azure 4
  • Meadow Fritillary 6
  • Pearl Crescent 14
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 23
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 3

Brett Budach

Hopewell Prairie - Private
Miami County, KS

Stiff south breeze, low 80’s, humid, alternating mid-level overcast and partly cloudy conditions. Plants are about 2-3 weeks behind where they should be this time of year.

  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Checkered White 1
  • Clouded Sulphur common
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue abundant
  • Spring Azure 2
  • Variegated Fritillary 3
  • Pearl Crescent common
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Red Admiral 2
  • Common Buckeye 4
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper common
  • Common Sootywing 1
  • Common Roadside-Skipper 1

Red-banded Hairstreak

Common Checkered-Skipper

Common Roadside-Skipper

Mourning Cloak

Rick Borchelt

Soldiers Delight Natural Area
Baltimore County, MD

Two hours spent at midday walking the serpentine barrens and associated woodlands at Soldiers Delight. Warm and sunny with slight breeze. Dusted Skippers were very fresh and obviously had just begun their flight; Cobwebs are past peak and quite worn. Photo by Tom Stock.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Orange Sulphur 4
  • Eastern Pine Elfin 1
  • Juniper Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue common
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Meadow Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent abundant
  • American Lady 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Cobweb Skipper 4
  • Dusted Skipper 4

Dusted Skipper

Karen Van Berkel

Table Rock State Park, Taney County, MO
Taney County, MO

Dozens of Red-banded Hairstreaks in oak trees and grass along edge of campground/woods.

  • Red-banded Hairstreak dozens

Jeffrey Glassberg

Mountainside Park
Morris County, NJ

1:15-2:45

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 5
  • Falcate Orangetip 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 20
  • Pearl Crescent 8
  • American Lady 2
  • Little Wood-Satyr 15
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Northern Cloudywing 10
  • Dreamy Duskywing 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 12
  • Cobweb Skipper 6
  • Indian Skipper 5
  • Dusted Skipper 1

Dusted Skipper

Indian Skipper

Brett Budach

Hopewell Prairie - Private
Miami County, KS

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Falcate Orangetip 1
  • Clouded Sulphur common
  • Orange Sulphur 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue superabundant
  • Variegated Fritillary 2
  • Silvery Checkerspot 1
  • Pearl Crescent common
  • American Lady 4
  • Red Admiral 1
  • Common Buckeye 1
  • Monarch 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Common Checkered-Skipper common
  • Sachem 5
  • Nysa Roadside-Skipper 1
  • Common Roadside-Skipper 4

Nysa Roadside-Skipper

Todd Eiben

North Chagrin Reservation - Hickory Hill Field
Cuyahoga County, OH

  • Cabbage White 4
  • Spring Azure 3
  • Pearl Crescent 21
  • Viceroy 2
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 5
  • Horace's Duskywing 1
  • Hobomok Skipper 4
  • Zabulon Skipper 19

Michael Diederich

Gumbo Limbo Nature Preserve, Boca Raton
Palm Beach County, FL

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Great Southern White 1
  • Orange-barred Sulphur 2
  • Julia Heliconian 1
  • Zebra Heliconian 1
  • Monarch 6

Steve Potter

Desert National Wildlife Range Corn Creek Station
Clark County, NV

  • Checkered White 20-40

Checkered White

Jeanette Klodzen

Jordan River Parkway - Between 7200 and 9000S
Salt Lake County, UT

  • Checkered White
  • Cabbage White
  • Purplish Copper 4
  • Mylitta Crescent 2
  • Red Admiral 2

Jim Wilkinson

Pickall Area, Patapsco State Park
Baltimore County, MD

  • Zebra Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Gray Hairstreak 1
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Painted Lady 2
  • Little Wood-Satyr 2

Little Wood-Satyr

Jeanette Klodzen

Lamb's Canyon Trail (to Millcreek Overlook) and parking area
Salt Lake County, UT

Silvery, Azures and Western Tailed Blues couldn’t ID all of them.

  • Anise Swallowtail 4
  • Spring White 2
  • Sara Orangetip 10+
  • Brown Elfin 2
  • Western Tailed-Blue
  • Spring Azure
  • Silvery Blue
  • Mylitta Crescent 3
  • Satyr Comma
  • Hoary Comma
  • Mourning Cloak 15+
  • Milbert's Tortoiseshell 1
  • Sleepy Duskywing 3
  • Rocky Mountain Duskywing 2
  • Juba Skipper 3

Allan R. Loudell

Along Dutch Neck Road south of the C & D Canal, and south of Delaware City
New Castle County, DE

69–70 degrees, but gusty winds; 3:30–5 p.m. Saw virtually no butterflies over the first half hour. Many butterflies stayed low in the grasses. Zabulon Skipper flew after Spring Azures a few times, which, in turn, prompted an Eight-spotted Forester moth to start flying. Pleased to see Bronze Coppers - all males - on this first visit to this location this year.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Bronze Copper 4 - All males
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Spring Azure 5
  • Red-spotted Purple 3
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 4

David L. Amadio

Chestnut Branch Park, Mantua
Gloucester County, NJ

No sign of Woolly Aphids on their Beech host yet this year.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Harvester 7
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Peck's Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Todd Eiben

Euclid Creek Reservation
Cuyahoga County, OH

First Pecks skippers and first Silver Spotted skipper of the year.

First Little Wood Satyrs of the year, too.

Eastern Tailed Blues represent the 2nd brood of the year.

  • Cabbage White 9
  • Clouded Sulphur 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
  • Pearl Crescent 33
  • Little Wood-Satyr 4
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 7
  • Peck's Skipper 3
  • Hobomok Skipper 26
  • Zabulon Skipper 25

Brad Ensing

Rogers Pond Area
Mecosta County, MI

Great late morning for spotting some beautiful Spring Azure’s today. 3 Tiger Swallowtails puddling this morning as well made for a pleasant watch with my 2 year old daughter!

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Spring Azure 4
  • Painted Lady 1

Jeanette Klodzen

Farmington Creek Trail
Davis County, UT

One unidentified Yellow Swallowtail

  • Anise Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 5
  • Western Tailed-Blue 2+
  • Spring Azure 1+
  • Dotted Blue 1
  • Northern Cloudywing 1
  • Rocky Mountain Duskywing 5+
  • Juba Skipper 3+

NABA-NJ field trip

Flatbrookville in Delaware Water Gap NRA
Sussex County, NJ

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 4
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 5
  • Falcate Orangetip 10
  • American Copper 100
  • Eastern Pine Elfin 9
  • Juniper Hairstreak 20
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 7
  • Spring Azure 1
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • American Lady 4
  • Red-spotted Purple 2
  • Little Wood-Satyr 70
  • Common Ringlet 3
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Southern Cloudywing 1
  • Northern Cloudywing 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 25
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Cobweb Skipper 1
  • Hobomok Skipper 9
  • Zabulon Skipper 6

Falcate Orangetip

Juniper Hairstreak

Barb Sendelbach

Albany Pine Bush Preserve
Albany County, NY

Also seen on two different trails were Tiger Swallowtail species which never landed for a positive id.

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • American Copper 7
  • Eastern Pine Elfin 2
  • Spring Azure 3
  • 'Karner' Melissa Blue 50+
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • American Lady 1
  • Common Ringlet 7
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Dreamy Duskywing 12+/-
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 12+/-
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Common Sootywing 2
  • Hobomok Skipper 3
  • Common Roadside-Skipper 2

'Karner' Melissa Blue

Common Ringlet

Common Roadside-Skipper

Matthew O'Donnell

Nescopeck State Park
Luzerne County, PA

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 8
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Cabbage White 3
  • American Lady 1
  • Little Wood-Satyr 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 1
  • Hobomok Skipper 1

Juvenal's Duskywing

Hobomok Skipper

Rick Borchelt

Frederick Municipal Watershed Forest
Frederick County, MD

12 noon - 4 pm in the Hunting Creek Watershed. Cool (61F) and overcast to cloudy. Indian Skipper and Hobomok are beginning their flights; Dreamy Duskywing is mid- or end-of-flight in this location.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 2
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • American Lady 1
  • Little Wood-Satyr abundant
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Dreamy Duskywing 2
  • Indian Skipper 1
  • Hobomok Skipper 3

Indian Skipper

Indian Skipper

Dreamy Duskywing

Hobomok Skipper

Harry Zirlin

Ward Pound Ridge
Westchester County, NY

One of the Eastern Tigers was a fresh dark form. Unusual at this site in the spring. Red-banded HS also not common in spring here. Nectar sources behind the butterflies. Dusted Sk, Hobomok, Long Dash and Indian all love Blue Flag Iris and it is not even close to being in bud. All of these were using Wild Geranium and/or bramble blossoms instead. Also 7 Harrris’ Checkerspot caterpillars.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 9
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 4
  • American Copper 6
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 8
  • Pearl Crescent 30+
  • American Lady 13
  • Little Wood-Satyr 40+
  • Common Ringlet 20+
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Dreamy Duskywing 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 10+
  • Indian Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 5
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 4
  • Long Dash 2
  • Hobomok Skipper 20+
  • Zabulon Skipper 1
  • Dusted Skipper 2

Stephen Buckingham

Woods edge along power line cut near Stockholm, south of Rt. 23 and north of Sparta Mountain WMA
Sussex County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 1

Cabbage White

Cabbage White

Jim Wilkinson

Nassawango Furnace
Worcester County, MD

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 2
  • Little Wood-Satyr 1

Little Wood-Satyr

Henry Halama

northern part of the county
Ulster County, NY

These species were observed in the last three days of May

  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • West Virginia White
  • Harvester
  • American Lady
  • Viceroy
  • Common Ringlet
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Southern Cloudywing
  • Northern Cloudywing
  • Least Skipper
  • Indian Skipper
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper

Michael Diederich

Spring Road Butterfly Garden, Spring Road, Chappaqua, New York
Westchester County, NY

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1

Vincent Corsello

Appalachian Trail Lands From Around Canal Road To The Base Of Wawayanda Mountain,Vernon
Sussex County, NJ

The Giant Swallowtails seem to be having a banner spring!

  • Black Swallowtail 5
  • Giant Swallowtail 37
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 19
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 24
  • Cabbage White 13
  • Falcate Orangetip 3
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Orange Sulphur 1
  • Juniper Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Mourning Cloak 3
  • Red-spotted Purple 3
  • Viceroy 2
  • Little Wood-Satyr 67
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Northern Cloudywing 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 1
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 4
  • Least Skipper 1
  • Hobomok Skipper 6
  • Zabulon Skipper 26

John Lampkin

Skymeadow Road, Suffern [Gas pipelines]
Rockland County, NY

Periodic survey. Wetlands bordering on mixed forest.
78 degrees, humid

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 5
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 5
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 11
  • Pearl Crescent 3
  • American Lady 4
  • Painted Lady 1
  • Little Wood-Satyr 33
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 3
  • Northern Cloudywing 1
  • Dreamy Duskywing 5
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 3
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
  • Indian Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 3
  • Hobomok Skipper 3
  • Zabulon Skipper 7

Indian Skipper

Dreamy Duskywing

Matthew O'Donnell

Goose Creek Bridge
Loudoun County, VA

Not many nectar sources yet, could be good later in the summer

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Silvery Checkerspot 1
  • Least Skipper 2

Matthew O'Donnell

Route 50 bridge boat landing
Clarke County, VA

Hundreds of puddling swallowtails. Most yellow ones were all the same size with variable markings resembling Eastern and Appalachian Tiger Swallowtail.

  • Zebra Swallowtail 3
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail X
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 15
  • Cabbage White 3
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

swallowtails

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Matthew O'Donnell

Thompson WMA
Fauquier County, VA

A puddling Harvester!

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail X
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 6
  • Cabbage White 1
  • Harvester 1
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 2
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 2
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Least Skipper 2
  • Sachem 1
  • Hobomok Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 3

Harvester

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Zabulon Skipper

Hobomok Skipper

Vincent Corsello

Henry Hudson Drive,Palisades Interstate Park,Englewood
Bergen County, NJ

Pipevine Swallowrtails were abundant as were the hundreds of thousands of 17 year Cicadas. The Cicadas were are sight to see and hear.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 178
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 7
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 2
  • Cabbage White 72
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 4
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 5

John Eric DiOrio

Main St., Heislerville
Cumberland County, NJ

First Monarch I’ve seen this season

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 2
  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Monarch 1

Chris Herz, Dave Amadio

Worthington S.F. & Old Mine Rd. Rt80 to Flatbrookville
Warren County, NJ

The Dreamy Duskywing was found on the lawn area next to the State Forest headquarters.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 12
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 5
  • Cabbage White 3
  • Spring Azure 1
  • Pearl Crescent 1
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 9
  • Little Wood-Satyr 14
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 6
  • Dreamy Duskywing 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 5
  • Peck's Skipper 3
  • Hobomok Skipper 3
  • Zabulon Skipper 3

Chris Herz, Dave Amadio

Dunnfield Creek Trail head
Warren County, NJ

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 4
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 2
  • Hobomok Skipper 2
  • Zabulon Skipper 2

Chris Herz, Dave Amadio

White Lake WMA
Warren County, NJ

The Giant Swallowtail flew over the parking area as we were preparing to leave. Also had 2 Sulphur sp. Clouded or possibly worn Orange.

  • Black Swallowtail 1
  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 2
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
  • Spring Azure 2
  • American Lady 1
  • Viceroy 2
  • Little Wood-Satyr 40
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 3
  • Peck's Skipper 16
  • Tawny-edged Skipper 3
  • Hobomok Skipper 12
  • Zabulon Skipper 1

Vincent Corsello

Wawayanda Lake,Wawawanda State Park,Vernon
Sussex County, NJ

All butterflies were on the beach.

  • Giant Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2
  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
  • Mourning Cloak 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 2
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing 1

John Lampkin

Lily Pond, Harriman St. Park
Rockland County, NY

Weekly survey.
Temp 74-83; high humidity
Perversely, I actually counted the Little Wood Satyrs.
Surprisingly no Cabbage Whites and relatively few species, perhaps due to a very high count of dragonflies.

  • American Copper 1
  • Pearl Crescent 6
  • American Lady 2
  • Little Wood-Satyr 103
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 1
  • Peck's Skipper 4
  • Hobomok Skipper 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 4

Rich Porricelli

Edgewood Preserve
Suffolk County, NY

  • Black Swallowtail
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Cabbage White
  • Clouded Sulphur
  • Orange Sulphur
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue
  • Spring Azure
  • Pearl Crescent
  • American Lady
  • Red-spotted Purple
  • Little Wood-Satyr
  • Silver-spotted Skipper
  • Juvenal's Duskywing
  • Peck's Skipper
  • Tawny-edged Skipper
  • Zabulon Skipper