Category Archives: Host Plants

What do you see here?

Posted on July 16, 2011 by connorj

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….

Posted on July 12, 2011 by connorj

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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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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Wanted: more ovipositing photos

Posted on April 14, 2011 by connorj

Holly azure (Celastrina idella) ovipositing on American holly (Ilex opaca), photo by Mike Crewe, Belleplain State Forest, 5-1-2010 Calling all SJBF photogs: How many species can you document egg-laying this year? Because studying host plant preferences is probably the best … Continue reading →

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