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Author Archives: connorj
A Starter’s Checklist to South Jersey Butterflies
At the link below is a checklist put together to help us attract new observers to our Sightings Log and our South Jersey Butterfly Project. As you will be able to tell, it is aimed at beginners or potential … Continue reading
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Brutal Winter Storm at Monarch Sanctuary in Mexico
A couple of our observers have emailed about this event. Seems too soon to tell how bad the effects will be, but it certainly looks like another tough, tough problem for this already-troubled species. The Daily Kos reports here seem … Continue reading
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Nine Species in Nine Days — an Early-March Outburst
In the first nine days of March South Jersey witnessed both a three-inch+ snowstorm and record-setting heat. Meanwhile, our intrepid observers wiped the snowflakes off their binoculars, stripped down to their short-sleeves, and documented nine different species of butterflies flying … Continue reading
Posted in First Emergences, ID Challenges & Tips, Links to Research Articles, Looking At Our Data, Lycaenids, Nymphalids
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The Butterflies of January
Will Kerling has looked back over our January records, 2008-2016, and compiled this interesting report: We have recorded ten butterfly species in January since our log’s start in 2008. Eight were recorded at least once from 2008-2015, and so … Continue reading
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Do Orange Spots Make An Orange Sulphur?
Harvey Tomlinson has created the challenge above — by capturing a seldom-seen feature in these two photos he took in Cumberland County on Jan. 3. Those orange dots on the hindwing of the white female in the first photo and … Continue reading
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A December to Remember
Dave Amadio has reviewed and compiled our records for the month. His report: I couldn’t resist reviewing the stats on this amazing December: First off we had 4 “1st ever for December” species: Summer Azure Eastern Tailed-Blue Blueberry Azure … Continue reading
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The Colias Conundrum
Hidden in the swirl of more exciting finds this month has been a surge of reports of both orange and clouded sulphurs. We already have more December reports of these two than in any of our previous seven Decembers … Continue reading
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December Possibilities?
Were we spoiled by November’s unseasonably warm weather in South Jersey — with so many daily temperatures of 60+? We recorded 23 species for the month: black swallowtail, spicebush swallowtail, cabbage white, clouded sulphur, orange sulphur, cloudless sulphur, eastern tailed-blue, … Continue reading
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More Rosa Pix — And a Question for Spring
In follow-up to the post of November 9 here are more photos of “rosa” morph buckeyes, showing their wide range of forms. Thanks to the photographers listed here for passing their shots along. See the earlier post — below — … Continue reading
Our Fall “Rosa” Buckeyes
So far, it’s been a good November for buckeyes. Twenty-four of our first fifty reports of the month (as of today) included at least one buckeye — and we have at least one November report from seven of our eight counties … Continue reading
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