Sighting for June 15, 2022
Stephen Buckingham
Mountainside Park, Pequannock
Morris County, NJ
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
- Spicebush Swallowtail 3
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
- 'Summer' Spring Azure 2
- Painted Lady 1
- Little Wood-Satyr 2
- Silver-spotted Skipper 10
- Hoary Edge 12
- Southern Cloudywing 1
- Northern Cloudywing 2
- Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
- Zabulon Skipper 1
- Little Glassywing 1
- Dun Skipper 1
Hoary Edge
Monarch caterpillar
Black Rat Snake
Little Glassywing
Northern Cloudywing
Common MIlkweed Blosssom
Painted Lady
Hoary Edge
Wild Indigo Duskywing
Southern Cloudywing
1:15 to 3 pm. 85 deg. and sunny. My usual route from parking lot up wooded trail parallel to main gas line right of way to fen boardwalk then back on main right of way. Good amounts of Dogbane and Common Milkweed in bloom. No Monarch butterflies, but one caterpillar on milkweed. 4 foot long Black Rat snake.