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Category Archives: Nymphalids
A Snoutstanding Winter
As of March 20, the first official full day of spring 2020, we can point to a startling sequence of numbers that spanned the South Jersey winter of 2019-2020: 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4, 1, 1, … 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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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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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
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March 2016 Compilation
Two snowstorms, several hard rains, a mix of cold winds from the northwest and warm winds from the south, and wildly-swinging temperatures (from the low 20’s to 80+) made for an exciting month for butterflying in South Jersey. According to … Continue reading
Posted in Early Dates, First Emergences, Looking At Our Data, Lycaenids, Nymphalids, Pierids, Skippers
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Nine Species in Nine Days — an Early-March Outburst
In the first nine days of March South Jersey witnessed both a three-inch+ snowstorm and record-setting heat. Meanwhile, our intrepid observers wiped the snowflakes off their binoculars, stripped down to their short-sleeves, and documented nine different species of butterflies flying … 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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More Rosa Pix — And a Question for Spring
In follow-up to the post of November 9 here are more photos of “rosa” morph buckeyes, showing their wide range of forms. Thanks to the photographers listed here for passing their shots along. See the earlier post — below — … Continue reading