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Category Archives: Eggs, Cats, Chrysalids
October 2015 Photo Gallery
Our log did well in October. Despite the inevitable decline of butterfly diversity and numbers as autumn days grow shorter and colder, we logged more reports in October (173) than in September (163), which was our first month using the … Continue reading
Posted in Eggs, Cats, Chrysalids, Milkweed Butterflies, Nymphalids, Photo Forum, Pierids, Skippers
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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
Posted in Early Dates, Eggs, Cats, Chrysalids, Late Dates, Looking At Our Data, Migration, Nymphalids
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September 2015 Photo Gallery
Among its many other advantages, David Reese’s new logging system allows us to share our photographs much more easily than we could previously. You can see all 70+ photographs posted by our observers in September 2015 by going to our … Continue reading
Posted in Eggs, Cats, Chrysalids, ID Challenges & Tips, Lycaenids, Nymphalids, Photo Forum, Pierids, Skippers, Swallowtails
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Late July to mid-August Photo Gallery
As always, SJBF Project photographers have been documenting sightings throughout our area. Here are just few of their recent shots — with at least one from each of our eight counties. Thanks to these contributors for passing along their photos. … Continue reading
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Franklin Parker Preserve June 13
On June 13 Stephen Mason led 13 members of our group on a field trip to Parker Preserve. Our luck was very good for one of our two target species: we found the first two-spotted skippers (four individuals in total) … Continue reading
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A Cat Emerges…
Chris Herz reports on a neat addition to her yard list — wild indigo duskywing caterpillars. “I just planted the wild indigo last fall (three small plants) after purchasing them at Clemenson Farms Native Plant Nursery in Estell Manor. The … Continue reading
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Let’s Urge NJ To Do Something About Neonicotinoid Pesticides
The South Jersey butterflyers who attended this month’s NABA conference in Chattanooga, TN, came back with happy tales of Dianas and other memorable sightings — and also a sad update of the monarch’s situation. Experts at the meeting painted a … Continue reading
Monarch Generations
We now have newly-emerged adult monarchs flying in South Jersey — apparently the first “Jersey-raised” monarchs of 2014. Ordinarily, our log collects only a handful of records of monarchs from mid-April to early May, and that was the case this … Continue reading
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April is the coolest month!
Is there a lovelier time of year in South Jersey than late April? Our first flowering plants — high-bush blueberry, shadbush, sassafras, trailing arbutus, dwarf cinquefoil, various violets, and others — are blooming; black cherry and other trees and shrubs … Continue reading
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Azures before April?
The emergence of the first blueberry azures seems the first day of spring for many of us South Jersey butterflyers and our patience is being sorely tested this year. Take a look at our list of Early & … Continue reading
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