Pennsville, NJ ~ Visitors to Jenny's Yard

 So proud of the work Jenny's done on building gardens in her yard. It takes time and patience when you aren't feeling your best. I visited this week when I saw 15 species of butterflies along with Snowberry Clearwing and a few hummingbird's. There could have been more species of skippers but there were so many skippers to shift through and ID. Her hard work is showing! Jenny has many flowers & host plants showing if you build it they will come!!

Lots of pollen on this Monarch!

Variegated Fritillary

Eastern-tailed Blue

Common Buckeye

Least

Snowberry Clearwing

Peck's

Fiery

Clouded Sulphur

Gray Hairstreak

 

Butterflies in the Yard

 After 3 days of cool temps in the low 60’s with winds; today was sunny & 75. 3 mint fresh species - Gray Hairstreak, Painted Lady & Silver-spotted plus first sighting of Long-tailed since 11/1.

Silver-spotted 

Sachem

Fiery

Painted Lady

Variegated Fritillary

Long-tailed 

Gray Hairstreak

Fiery

Common Buckeye

My Yard ~ Butterflies

 Shocked and excited to have a Long-Tailed Skipper fly out of a large bushy lantana I was watering.  Also had an Ocola here along with 8 other species of butterflies.  This is really great for the end of October in a drought year.  We haven't had a freeze here yet so I still have zinnia's blooming though many of them are dyeing.  I have still been watering due to the drought.

Lantana

Zinnia

Sachem

Fiery

Long-tailed

Ocola

Ocola

Cabbage White

Orange Sulphur

Fiery

Clouded Sulphur

Common Buckeye

 

My Yard ~ Recent Butterflies

 Seen in my yard. Past few sunny days of low winds & temps 78-82 degrees has kept the butterflies going. 11 species of butterflies still flying including a Monarch, several Common-checkered, several Pearl Crescents and more. ID's below the pictures.

Common-checkered

Cloudless Sulphur

Common Buckeye - Rosa Form

Eastern-tailed Blue

Fiery

Painted Lady

Pearl Crescent

Variegated Fritillary

Cape May, NJ Trip - Butterflies

 I had a super few days in Cape May last week. Here are some of the 15 species of butterflies I saw while there. I sure wish I'd seen more Monarch's but I saw really great numbers of Ocola's, Long-tailed and Fiery's to make up for the Monarch's.

I had a super few days in Cape May last week. Here are some of the 15 species of butterflies I saw while there. I sure wish I'd seen more Monarch's but I saw really great numbers of Ocola's, Long-tailed and Fiery's to make up for the Monarch's.

Center front garden from my former home

Painted Lady

Painted Lady

Long-tailed

Ocola

Fiery

American Lady

Monarch

Red Admiral

Ocola

Black Swallowtail

Long Tailed