Category Archives: Late Dates

SJBF Project Compilation for 2018

 First Some Good Memories: The explosion of Brazilian skippers in CMY, in many gardens growing Canna, seems what most of us will remember longest about 2018.  [See earlier posts on this blog for the details.]  Stay tuned in 2019 and for … Continue reading

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A Backward Glance at 2017

As of March 6, 2018, our “un-butterfly” weather continues.  It has been so regularly cold, windy, rainy, icy, snowy, or all of the above that we have records for flying butterflies on only three days so far this year: Feb … 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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Early and Late Dates, Each Year, 2008-2016

The spreadsheet at the first link below lists each year’s early and late dates for all 106 butterfly species we have found so far in South Jersey, 2008-2016. The extreme dates are in color: Green = earliest date we have … Continue reading

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Full-Year Compilation for 2016

Jack Miller has done it again. Following up on his compilation for 2015, here is his full-year compilation of species, reports, and individuals as posted on our Sightings Log, January-December, 2016.  He worked on this through the fall (while he … Continue reading

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Autumn Compilation 2016

We had a very active fall season -– with observers out in force and reporting frequently. In fact, we logged more than twice as many reports for each month than we had for the same months last year (which was … Continue reading

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2015 Full-Year Compilation: Cold Start, Hot End

Jack Miller took on the much-harder-than-it-looks task of compiling our records for the full year of 2015. Thanks to his many hours of work we now have two new spreadsheets documenting that interesting year. This one focuses in detail on … Continue reading

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June Compilation

As cold, wet May 2016 fell behind us, the weather turned better in early June and, for the most part, stayed that way. In fact, June 2016 seemed a butterfly-chaser’s dream month: filled with bright, pleasantly warm, and mostly dry … Continue reading

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The Butterflies of January

  Will Kerling has looked back over our January records, 2008-2016, and compiled this interesting report: We have recorded ten butterfly species in January since our log’s start in 2008. Eight were recorded at least once from 2008-2015, and so … Continue reading

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A December to Remember

Dave Amadio has reviewed and compiled our records for the month.  His report:   I couldn’t resist reviewing the stats on this amazing December: First off we had 4 “1st ever for December” species: Summer Azure Eastern Tailed-Blue Blueberry Azure … Continue reading

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