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Category Archives: Early Dates
Brazilian Skipper Redux
We now have two mind-boggling reports of a Brazilian skipper in Cape May this spring: the first by Sam Galick on the Cape May Point Hawkwatch Platform on Sunday, May 20; the second by Teresa Knipper in her garden in … Continue reading
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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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Coming Soon?
I unplugged the heaters from the yard’s bird baths the other day. Wishful thinking! Both were frozen solid this morning. Needless to say, 2018 has been a late-starting butterfly year. As of noon, today, April 11, SJBP observer/reporters have found … 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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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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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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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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March 2016 Compilation
Two snowstorms, several hard rains, a mix of cold winds from the northwest and warm winds from the south, and wildly-swinging temperatures (from the low 20’s to 80+) made for an exciting month for butterflying in South Jersey. According to … Continue reading
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An Overlookable Migrant
Some migrant butterflies are so brightly-colored or so numerous (or both) that you can’t help noticing them when they are on the move: monarchs, painted ladies, red admirals, cloudless sulphurs, and others. At the other end of the spectrum we … Continue reading
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