Recent sightings

  • Date Clear

  • Location Clear

  • Other Clear

Tom Bailey

Pinelands Preservation Alliance Headquarters, Southampton Township
Burlington County, NJ

Mid-afternoon. Sunny, breezy, temperature @50 degrees.

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Sulphur sp. 1

Wijbren Huisman

Atkinson Memorial Park, Sewell
Gloucester County, NJ

Obs. 2.00 pm Temp. 55 F. My FOY BF in the park.

  • Cabbage White 1

David L. Amadio

Platt's nursery & farm market, Clarkesboro
Gloucester County, NJ

Found flying amidst flats of pansies. Temp. only mid 40's.

  • Cabbage White 1

Tom Reed

Woodcock Trail tract, Cape May NWR
Cape May County, NJ

Mostly sunny, 63F, wind W 10-15mph. 12:35 pm. Red Admiral flying north along saltmarsh edge.

  • Red Admiral 1

Wijbren Huisman & Lucy Hooper

Back yard Lucy Hooper
Gloucester County, NJ

Obs. 12.30 Temp 60F. While photographing native Spring flowers in Lucy’s back yard, a Spring Azure showed up. My first 2024 BF.

  • Spring Azure 1

Spring Azure

Jackie Parker

712 Foster Ave. Cape May
Cape May County, NJ

  • Spring Azure 1

Zac Bohm

Our home in Eldora,NJ
Cape May County, NJ

[Very cool photo by our newest contributor, Zac Bohm: mourning cloak ovipositing on willow (Salix).

I can't remember any previous photographs on our log documenting this host plant use in South Jersey.

Thank you, Zac! jc]

  • Mourning Cloak 1

Mourning Cloak

Pat Sutton

Beaver Swamp WMA
Cape May County, NJ

  • Spring Azure 5

Spring Azure

Scott McConnell

Whitesboro
Cape May County, NJ

Clear, low 60s, light W wind. 1.4km, 1500–1540.

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Spring Azure 3
  • Eastern Comma 1

Karen & Brian Johnson

Mill pond road
Salem County, NJ

Salem County tour today. Most of the butterflies were on the sand road north of Maskells Mill WMA. 63 degrees and sunny.

[Thanks to Karen and Brian for our first reports from SAL in 2024. jc]

  • Cabbage White 3
  • Henry's Elfin 5
  • Blueberry Azure 1
  • American Snout 1
  • Mourning Cloak 1

Henry's Elfin

Vicky McErlean

Galloway home
Atlantic County, NJ

Sunny. Mid-60's. First yard butterfly sighting of the year.

  • Cabbage White 2

Greg Prelich and Jeanine Apgar

Lenape Farms WMA
Atlantic County, NJ

A nice 62-degree day brightened by a pair of Henry's Elfins.

[Nice! Our 2nd and 3rd Henry's of 2024 and first north of CMY. jc]

  • Cabbage White 11
  • Henry's Elfin 2
  • Spring Azure 9
  • Anglewing sp. 1
  • Mourning Cloak 4

Cabbage White

Henry's Elfin

Tom Bailey

Palmyra Cove Nature Park
Burlington County, NJ

Incidental sightings.

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Eastern Comma 2

Aaron Reb, Jack McDonough

Higbee Beach WMA
Cape May County, NJ

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Spring Azure 7
  • American Snout 1

American Snout

Aaron Reb

Higbee beach WMA
Cape May County, NJ

[Super find! This breaks our record early date for white-m that has stood for more than ten years, 3/30/2012, by two weeks! (2012 was a year that set a series of early dates.) Congratulations, Aaron, and keep these reports and photos coming! jc]

  • White M Hairstreak 1

White M Hairstreak

Scott McConnell

Whitesboro
Cape May County, NJ

Temp in low 60s, clear, light SW breeze; 1.4 km, 1345–1445.

  • Spring Azure 1
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Mourning Cloak 1

Tom Bailey

Brendan Byrne SF, Woodland Township
Burlington County, NJ

Disjunct section off of Jones Mill Road, Chatsworth.

  • Blueberry Azure 4

Blueberry Azure

Dolores Amesbury

My yard in CMCH
Cape May County, NJ

Milky sunshine, 69 degrees

  • Azure, sp. 1
  • Anglewing sp. 1
  • Mourning Cloak 3

Mourning Cloak

Jack McDonough, Aaron Reb

Coral Ave, CMP
Cape May County, NJ

Partly sunny, 64 degrees, WSW at 11mph. Between 12-1pm.

Essential movement was either east-west or east-north/nnw from the dune crossing

  • Question Mark 5
  • Red Admiral 2