Category Archives: Eggs, Cats, Chrysalids

Cloudywings in Competition?

Posted on June 9, 2011 by connorj

Northern cloudywing above; southern cloudywing below.   South Jersey has a number of look-alike/act-alike pairs of butterfly species: orange and common sulfurs, holly and blueberry azures, American and painted ladies, hackberry and tawny emperors, Juvenal’s and Horace’s duskywings, tawny-edged and … Continue reading →

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Hackberries Are Hot

Posted on May 26, 2011 by connorj

Tawny emperor caterpillar on hackberry, Lizard Tail Swamp, by Will Kerling. Will Kerling’s photo of a tawny emperor caterpillar this week (5/25) at Lizard Tail Swamp Preserve following Pat Sutton’s photo of mourning cloak cats in her backyard last week … Continue reading →

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Cat-Chasing Time

Posted on May 23, 2011 by connorj

Mourning cloak caterpillars on hackberry, photo’d by Pat Sutton, Goshen, May 20, 2011 Caterpillars become easier to find in late May as more and more species have had time to lay their eggs — and their young time to grow … Continue reading →

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