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Category Archives: Eggs, Cats, Chrysalids
Updates of Guides to Pollinator Plants & Butterfly Host Plants for South Jersey
Butterfly gardening time is not all that far away, as all experienced gardeners know. As of January 16, Jesse Connor has updated her guide to the best pollinator plants in South Jersey and her guide to the best host plants. … Continue reading
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Milkweed’s True Dependents
The milkweed flowering season has peaked now — for common milkweed, at least — and will fade to a close over the next few weeks. By mid-July or so all those butterflies, moths, bees, wasps, ants, soldier beetles, and flower … Continue reading
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Pollinator Plant List for Butterfly Gardeners in South Jersey
Jesse Connor has pulled together a list of the best pollinator plants in South Jersey to complement her list of the best butterfly host plants posted last month. See the document for her interest in your observations and suggestions. Jesse … Continue reading
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Caterpillar Host Plant List for Gardeners
Jesse Connor put together the list at the link below for the Southeast Chapter of the Native Plant Society of New Jersey. Since it is already time for butterfly gardeners to consider what plants they might like to add to … 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
Steve Glynn: South Jersey’s Sleepy Orange Colony
Steve Glynn has been carefully monitoring a colony of sleepy oranges at Dix WMA, Cumberland County, since August, 2016, when he found and re-found two females and one male flying there over several days — and began wondering why they … Continue reading
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Beth Polvino: Documenting My Brazilian Skippers
Beth Polvino has tracked and photographed the entire sequence of Brazilian skippers in her garden in North Cape May this year: from eggs to adults (still continuing). Until this year the species was not known to breed in NJ. Thanks … 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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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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Northbound Ladies?
Northbound migration by butterflies in spring is much harder to document than their southbound flights in fall. For one thing, the numbers of individuals headed south in fall are orders of magnitude larger: monarchs, buckeyes, red admirals, painted ladies, and … Continue reading
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