Category Archives: Milkweed Butterflies

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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Milkweed’s True Dependents

The milkweed flowering season has peaked now — for common milkweed, at least — and will fade to a close over the next few weeks.  By mid-July or so all those butterflies, moths, bees, wasps, ants, soldier beetles, and flower … Continue reading

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Jennifer Bulava: Bonding With A Monarch

  What is it like to live with a butterfly for five days?  And what good can it do? Jennifer Bulava tells us here: A Naturalist & A Monarch Find A Bond

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Ninety-One Species So Far

Will Kerling has very kindly compiled our list of all species reported to our log so far this year in South Jersey. Here’s his report. Thank you, Will! As of September 19, I think that we have the 91 species … Continue reading

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Brutal Winter Storm at Monarch Sanctuary in Mexico

A couple of our observers have emailed about this event. Seems too soon to tell how bad the effects will be, but it certainly looks like another tough, tough problem for this already-troubled species. The Daily Kos reports here seem … 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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October 2015 Photo Gallery

Our log did well in October. Despite the inevitable decline of butterfly diversity and numbers as autumn days grow shorter and colder, we logged more reports in October (173) than in September (163), which was our first month using the … Continue reading

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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

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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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