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Category Archives: Compilations
Jack Miller: Some Thoughts On South Jersey’s Dion Skippers
[Update (8-3-21): In response to Jack Miller’s post below, Dale Schweitzer has kindly provided his own thoughts about the host plant for Euphyes dion in our area. See the end of this post for his comments. Any observer observing ovipositing … Continue reading
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Marching Back To 2012
We recorded 19 species in March, 2020, the best count for the third month of the year since March 2016, when we also found 19. We also broke three earliest First-Of-Year records for the log and tied two others. Our … Continue reading
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Not A Banner Year For Skippers
The numbers for reports and individual totals of all skippers are now included in the chart comparing the numbers of all species of butterflies seen in 2019 with their ten-year averages, 2009-2018. For the spreadsheet and an explanation of what … Continue reading
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Our Log’s Greatest One-Day Flight (so far)
Our new ten-year-averages chart is available at the link on the banner above, comparing the 2019 numbers of all species reported in 2019 with their average counts from 2009-2018. Thanks again to David Reese for modifying his reporting system so … Continue reading
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SJBF Project Compilation for 2018
First Some Good Memories: The explosion of Brazilian skippers in CMY, in many gardens growing Canna, seems what most of us will remember longest about 2018. [See earlier posts on this blog for the details.] Stay tuned in 2019 and for … Continue reading
A Slow, Cold Spring…
Thanks to Jack Miller and to Michael Gochfeld for their help in assembling this post. Our South Jersey Butterfly Project log’s numbers so far this year seem good evidence of the simple truth that temperature affects butterfly activity – … Continue reading
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A Backward Glance at 2017
As of March 6, 2018, our “un-butterfly” weather continues. It has been so regularly cold, windy, rainy, icy, snowy, or all of the above that we have records for flying butterflies on only three days so far this year: Feb … Continue reading
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Early and Late Dates, Each Year, 2008-2016
The spreadsheet at the first link below lists each year’s early and late dates for all 106 butterfly species we have found so far in South Jersey, 2008-2016. The extreme dates are in color: Green = earliest date we have … Continue reading
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Not A Census; A Survey By Snapshots
Thanks again to Jack Miller for his many hours of work compiling all our reports for both 2015 and 2016, his species-by-species analysis, and for his notes about his difficulties assembling his 2016 Compilation. He points to a genuine problem, … Continue reading
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Full-Year Compilation for 2016
Jack Miller has done it again. Following up on his compilation for 2015, here is his full-year compilation of species, reports, and individuals as posted on our Sightings Log, January-December, 2016. He worked on this through the fall (while he … Continue reading
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