Category Archives: Compilations

Autumn Compilation 2016

We had a very active fall season -– with observers out in force and reporting frequently. In fact, we logged more than twice as many reports for each month than we had for the same months last year (which was … Continue reading

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2015 Full-Year Compilation: Cold Start, Hot End

Jack Miller took on the much-harder-than-it-looks task of compiling our records for the full year of 2015. Thanks to his many hours of work we now have two new spreadsheets documenting that interesting year. This one focuses in detail on … Continue reading

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Ninety-One Species So Far

Will Kerling has very kindly compiled our list of all species reported to our log so far this year in South Jersey. Here’s his report. Thank you, Will! As of September 19, I think that we have the 91 species … Continue reading

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August 2016 Compilation

August 2016 seemed a good month for butterflies and butterfly observers in South Jersey, despite the heat and general lack of rain. We compiled our highest total of reports this year (460+) and observers (40), and we documented 64 species … Continue reading

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July Compilation

Let me start with a shout-out to Jack Miller who compiled observers and species for the month and also helped select the photos for this month’s gallery.  Thank you, JM! Twenty-eight observers contributed to the log in July 2016: Cynthia … Continue reading

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June Compilation

As cold, wet May 2016 fell behind us, the weather turned better in early June and, for the most part, stayed that way. In fact, June 2016 seemed a butterfly-chaser’s dream month: filled with bright, pleasantly warm, and mostly dry … Continue reading

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May Compilation

  And you thought April was supposed to be the cruelest month! Rainy days outnumbered dry days in South Jersey in May — about 19 days to 12 (depending on where you live).  And, almost as bad for butterfly-chasers, we … Continue reading

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April Compilation

Have we returned to normalcy?  April brought us a weather pattern much closer to average than we experienced over the previous seven months — from September to the end of March.  September 2015-March 2016 was the 5th warmest fall and … Continue reading

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