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Category Archives: Nymphalids
Calling All Caterpillar Chasers
American lady caterpillar in its nest on Gnaphalium in U.U. meadow in Galloway 5-22-12 Caterpillar chasers, unite! Anyone interested in studying the earlier life stages of butterflies can have some fun right now checking out the host plants of the … Continue reading
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More Observations of May 4th Flight
Will Kerling managed to capture all three species of the migrating flocks in one image at Lizard Tail Swamp Preserve. It’s hard to keep up with the red admiral/Am lady/question mark flight, as it is continuing. For the most recent … Continue reading
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From South to North: Spectacular!
Red admiral, photo by Pat Sutton in Goshen (Cape May County) 5/4/12. Hey, everyone: Whew! Can this continue? If you are new to our log and blog and have come here in response to the red admiral, American lady, and … Continue reading
Posted in Looking At Our Data, Migration, Nymphalids
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Send your reports about today’s flight
Red admirals nectaring on black cherry, part of the ginormous flight today, 5-4-12, photo by Pat Sutton in Goshen (Cape May County). This is just a rushed note, hoping to solicit responses from anyone who observed today’s huge flight of … Continue reading
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Please Note Red Admiral Irruption
This morning’s rain (Wednesday 5/2/12 a.m.) might put a temporary hold on yesterday’s massive flight of red admirals seen throughout South Jersey (apparently) as well as northward. If this irruption follows pattern of past years, we should see more of … Continue reading
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Can you name either of these butterflies?
An anglewing, sp. photo’d by Harvey Tomlinson in the Great Swamp (Morris Co) on 4-21-12 Harvey Tomlinson has sent along the photo above as an unsolved puzzle: Is it a comma or a question mark? He points out that the … Continue reading
Posted in ID Challenges & Tips, Lycaenids, Nymphalids
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A Thousand Entries, Two New Skippers, & Admiral Immigration
Least skipper, photo’d by Chip Krilowicz, Supawna Meadows, Salem Co, 4-20-12 We have reached 1100 entries for April with more than a week left to go. (Last year we totaled 880 for the whole month.) And our log’s year list, … Continue reading
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Sometimes the books are just plain…
American snout, photo’d by Pat Sutton, Cape May NWR, 3/7/12. …. correct. Do you like to pencil little notes in the margins of your butterfly books — “Really?” or “True?” or “How can that be??”– when you come upon some … Continue reading
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As the year turns….
Monarch at Cape May State Park, photo’d by Sam Galick mid-day, January 1, 2012. …. Cape May still has butterflies on the wing. Our first butterflies of 2012 follow immediately on the tracks of our last butterflies of 2011, as … Continue reading
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One Garden, One Day, Two Rarities
Photo by Will Kerling, 11-09-11 Thanks to Cynthia Allen and Will Kerling, we’ve added two new species to our November list this week. Patrolling the Triangle Garden in Cape May Point (on Lighthouse Avenue), they first found a white-m hairstreak, … Continue reading
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