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Category Archives: Migration
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
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August 2016 Compilation
August 2016 seemed a good month for butterflies and butterfly observers in South Jersey, despite the heat and general lack of rain. We compiled our highest total of reports this year (460+) and observers (40), and we documented 64 species … Continue reading
Posted in Compilations, First Emergences, Migration
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Northbound Ladies?
Northbound migration by butterflies in spring is much harder to document than their southbound flights in fall. For one thing, the numbers of individuals headed south in fall are orders of magnitude larger: monarchs, buckeyes, red admirals, painted ladies, and … Continue reading
Posted in Eggs, Cats, Chrysalids, Host Plants, Migration, Nymphalids
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An Overlookable Migrant
Some migrant butterflies are so brightly-colored or so numerous (or both) that you can’t help noticing them when they are on the move: monarchs, painted ladies, red admirals, cloudless sulphurs, and others. At the other end of the spectrum we … Continue reading
Posted in Early Dates, Eggs, Cats, Chrysalids, Late Dates, Looking At Our Data, Migration, Nymphalids
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Field Trip Report: Heislerville Migration 10-7-15
We came, we saw, and we contemplated. Jack Miller led a half dozen of us on an investigation of the butterfly migration along Bay Avenue in Maurice River Township and in other, nearby spots on October 7. We were searching … Continue reading
Posted in Field Trips, Lycaenids, Migration, Milkweed Butterflies, Moths, Nymphalids, Pierids, Skippers
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Field Trip to Heislerville, October 7: Buckeye Migration Chase
Following up on his high counts of buckeyes and other butterflies in and near Heislerville WMA on 9-28-15 and 9-29-15, Jack Miller has volunteered to lead a “short-notice” field trip there this coming Wednesday, October 7. Meeting Place: Intersection of … Continue reading
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Migrants Crossing Paths In Southern NJ
It’s that’s exciting time of year for butterfly watchers when we can see migrants on the move in both directions in southern NJ: NJ breeders heading south and southern species migrating in what seems the wrong direction, north through southern … Continue reading
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The Latest Monarch Research: Gloomy But Not-So-Doomy
If you would like to feel a little more optimistic about North American’s best-known butterfly, set aside some time to read through the new series of articles published just last week by the Entomological Society of America: “The Monarch Collection” … Continue reading
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Monarch Generations
We now have newly-emerged adult monarchs flying in South Jersey — apparently the first “Jersey-raised” monarchs of 2014. Ordinarily, our log collects only a handful of records of monarchs from mid-April to early May, and that was the case this … Continue reading
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How many species in November?
We have already had some interesting reports in the new month: Steve Glynn’s find of checkered white near Rt 49 in Millville on November 2 (photo’d above) and several others. Early yesterday morning (November 3) Will Kerling noted: “After a … Continue reading
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