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Category Archives: First Emergences
A Thousand Entries, Two New Skippers, & Admiral Immigration
Least skipper, photo’d by Chip Krilowicz, Supawna Meadows, Salem Co, 4-20-12 We have reached 1100 entries for April with more than a week left to go. (Last year we totaled 880 for the whole month.) And our log’s year list, … Continue reading
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Ides of April IDs
Cobweb skipper, found and photo’d by Pennsylvania butterflyer Bill Grant in Dividing Creek, 4-15-12 The cobweb skipper above gives our group’s log thirty-eight species of butterflies for the first half of April and thirty-nine species for the year. (Summer azure, … Continue reading
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A Month To Remember
Juniper hairstreak, photo by Will Kerling, 3-27-12, a new record early date; has this species ever been found in NJ in March before this year? Whew! How to begin a summary of the past thirty-one days of butterfly activity? March … Continue reading
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Night-time Leps Early Too
Toothed phigalia photo’d by Stephen Mason Stephen Mason, now at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, reports that nocturnal leps seem to be flying early this year, just as their day-flying, better-known (but far less numerous) relatives have been: … Continue reading
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Will K’s Update: NJ March Records
Henry’s elfin, photo by Will Kerling Will Kerling has sent a follow-up to his post from 3/14/12: As far as I know, we now have ten butterfly species that never have been officially documented in NJ for March before … Continue reading
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Will K On Our March Madness
An early black swallowtail found & photo’d by Jesse Connor in her garden in Port Republic, (Atlantic Co.), March 17, 2012. Prognostications about “March Madness” are not limited to basketball gurus. Will Kerling compiled a list of butterfly species that … Continue reading
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Does pine elfin make a baker’s dozen?
A very early eastern pine elfin photo’d by Shawn Wainwright in Toms River, 3/13/12. (Is it a record early date for the state?) Shawn Wainwright’s find of eastern pine elfin on the surprisingly early date of March 13 seems to … Continue reading
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Sometimes the books are just plain…
American snout, photo’d by Pat Sutton, Cape May NWR, 3/7/12. …. correct. Do you like to pencil little notes in the margins of your butterfly books — “Really?” or “True?” or “How can that be??”– when you come upon some … Continue reading
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Blueberry azures flying!
photo by Will Kerling. Will Kerling photo’d the first Celastrina lucia for 2012 on the very early date of February 23 at Beaver Dam Road. He and others have been expecting to spot this species early, given the warm, so-called … Continue reading
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Can azures be far behind?
Highbush blueberry, Vaccinium corymbosum, blooming February 7, 2012, CMPt State Park, photo by Will Kerling. NJ’s warm winter has been especially evident in Cape May, where daytime high temperatures seem to have been more often in the 50s (and even … Continue reading
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