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Category Archives: ID Challenges & Tips
Sharon Wander Makes Skipper ID Easier
Sharon Wander has pulled together an amazingly helpful, informative, and easy-to-use document focused on New Jersey’s grass skippers. You can find it on the NABA-NJ Resources page (where you will find lots of other good stuff): NABA-NJ Resources Page Or, … Continue reading
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Five Ways Of Understanding South Jersey’s Azures
[This post has been updated as on 5-5-21 to include the responses of Dale Schweitzer and Wade Wander, now to be found below “Sources“ at the end of the article] “How many different azure species are there in South Jersey?” … Continue reading
Posted in Host Plants, ID Challenges & Tips, Lycaenids
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A Male Monarch Mystery?
[This post has been updated as of 5/29/20. See Comments from Emile DeVito and Jack Miller below — and a link to Journey North with further information.] Kathy Horn’s photograph above sparked a search for comments or other photos on … Continue reading
Posted in ID Challenges & Tips, Looking At Our Data, Migration, Milkweed Butterflies
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Brazilian Skipper Redux
We now have two mind-boggling reports of a Brazilian skipper in Cape May this spring: the first by Sam Galick on the Cape May Point Hawkwatch Platform on Sunday, May 20; the second by Teresa Knipper in her garden in … Continue reading
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Jack Miller’s December Forecast: Cool and Sunny With Scattered Leps by Mid-morning
As you make plans for this holiday season and you are trying to come up with a fresh idea, consider taking your family and friends out for a butterfly search. After all, in the past six years we have recorded … Continue reading
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“Questionable” Commas in Ontario
Rick Cavasin, Ontario butterflyer extraordinaire, has sent us a very interesting response to the March post, “Questionable Commas.” He has found and documented several different variations on the “punctuation marks” on Polygonia. I [am sending along] a photo of a … Continue reading
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Questionable Commas
We have had two reports recently about confusing Polygonia — individuals showing eastern comma patterns on their dorsal side and what looks like a question mark on the ventral. Chip Krilowicz photo’d one and Jack Miller photo’d the other. Jack … Continue reading
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July Compilation
Let me start with a shout-out to Jack Miller who compiled observers and species for the month and also helped select the photos for this month’s gallery. Thank you, JM! Twenty-eight observers contributed to the log in July 2016: Cynthia … Continue reading
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Southern Broken Dash: A Species To Look For?
[Originally posted 8-1-16. Scroll to the end for an update as of 8-2-16 and a new photo from Harvey Tomlinson]. Is southern broken dash, Wallengrenia otho, possible in our area? And if so, can we identify it? Both Harvey Tomlinson … Continue reading
Photo Forum: A Duskywings Challenge (updated 4-21-16)
Last week’s request for duskywing shots for a Photo Forum on Juvenal’s vs. Horace’s brought in more than a dozen shots. Thanks to each of you who contributed. However, no one sent in details of which features had led to … Continue reading
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