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Category Archives: Eggs, Cats, Chrysalids
Mid-August Gallery
Little yellow, photo’d up close and personal by Will Kerling at Cape May Courthouse, 8-11-12. The last ten days or so have provided such a whirlwind of butterfly events that it’s hard to keep track of them all, including: *** … Continue reading
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And More Harvesters…
Look close: it’s a harvester caterpillar consuming wooly aphids at Chestnut Branch Park, Gloucester County, 8-16-12. Photo by Dave Amadio It’s hard to keep up with our observers tracking down exciting sightings on various fronts. We have our first reported … Continue reading
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Salem Co Calling All Butterflyers!
The next generation emerging: a checkered white caterpillar, photo’d by Dave Amadio in Salem County, 7-28-12. Have you been pulling out your maps to calculate the drive time to Featherbed Lane and environs? Dave Amadio reports on his day in … Continue reading
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A hairstreak emerges
One of three lycaenid caterpillars on white oak, 5-17-12, Stockton campus, Atlantic Co. Turning over leaves of a white oak tree (Quercus alba) on Stockton’s campus on 5-17-12, I came upon three caterpillars that looked like possible lycaenids, so I … Continue reading
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Calling All Caterpillar Chasers
American lady caterpillar in its nest on Gnaphalium in U.U. meadow in Galloway 5-22-12 Caterpillar chasers, unite! Anyone interested in studying the earlier life stages of butterflies can have some fun right now checking out the host plants of the … Continue reading
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April Compilation: The Action Continues
Variegated fritillary, photo by Will Kerling, Cape May Courthouse (Cape May Co), 4-30-12. Male pipevine swallowtail, photo by Ro Wilson, Medford Leas (Burlington Co) 4-17-12 Depending on how you count, one or the other of the species above was our … Continue reading
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Coming Attractions: Native Plants Talk Monday 3/19
Don’t forget the free presentation coming up this Monday (3/19/12) at Stockton College about native plants by Doug Tallamy. It’s free and will be good! Anyone truly interested in butterflies should find it a stimulating and educational presentation. 7 pm … Continue reading
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What do you see here?
A mystery photo along Rt 608 (Cape May County) by Will Kerling, 7/15/11 Can you tell what’s captured in this image by Will Kerling? No, it’s not a Salvador Dali-ian cartoon of a red-bearded lizard head with one eye and … Continue reading
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The Pipevine S-tail Story Continues….
In our previous installment, when last we left our caterpillar heroes (“Pipevine Cats Mystery” June 23), they were climbing over pipevines in several gardens in South Jersey, munching as fast as they could. In our Port Republic garden, most of … Continue reading
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Pipevine Cats Mystery
Male pipevine swallowtail Why so many pipevine swallowtail caterpillars this year? Pipevine swallowtails have long seemed a hard-to-find butterfly in southern New Jersey. One obvious reason: their host plants, the Aristolochia, are rare to non-existent in the wild here. (Our … Continue reading
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