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Category Archives: Moths
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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Pollinator Plant List for Butterfly Gardeners in South Jersey
Jesse Connor has pulled together a list of the best pollinator plants in South Jersey to complement her list of the best butterfly host plants posted last month. See the document for her interest in your observations and suggestions. Jesse … Continue reading
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Wade Wander’s Magnificent Obsession
North Jersey environmental consultant, conservationist, birder, botanist, and butterflyer Wade Wander has been documenting the moths of his backyard in Fredon, Sussex County, for the last 15 years. Believe it or not, his total count for that single spot … 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
Posted in Field Trips, Lycaenids, Migration, Milkweed Butterflies, Moths, Nymphalids, Pierids, Skippers
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National Moth Week is here
July 18 to July 26 is this year’s annual National Moth Week, when we celebrate one of the most successful forms of life on Planet Earth. Stockton entomologist Jamie Cromartie is organizing the local event, where you can see and … Continue reading
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Franklin Parker Preserve June 13
On June 13 Stephen Mason led 13 members of our group on a field trip to Parker Preserve. Our luck was very good for one of our two target species: we found the first two-spotted skippers (four individuals in total) … Continue reading
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Let the winter winds blow — these are tough cats!
The snow and winds of this old-fashioned winter (i.e. 1980s-1990s-like) mean that we are still awaiting our first report of adult butterflies. Thanks to Will Kerling, however, we have some reports of some intriguing lep activity. He has photo’d and … Continue reading
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September Pix (So Far….!)
Keep ’em coming, photographers. You can add your photos as links directly to the log as described in the blog below — or send them as attachments to nacotejackATgmailDOTcom. Keep reporting, everyone! jc
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Young Leps….
… can be worth a photo long before they fly! Photographers willing to share their shots on this blog or our log please send along to nacotejackATgmailDOTcom. Thank you!
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In the Cool of the Night
All photos here are by Pat Sutton. Pat & Clay Sutton regularly hang “gooey” fruit in a dish in their backyard in Goshen (Cape May Co) to attract both butterflies and moths — and the last week has brought a … Continue reading
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