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Category Archives: Looking At Our Data
Jack Miller: Some Thoughts On South Jersey’s Dion Skippers
[Update (8-3-21): In response to Jack Miller’s post below, Dale Schweitzer has kindly provided his own thoughts about the host plant for Euphyes dion in our area. See the end of this post for his comments. Any observer observing ovipositing … Continue reading
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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
Posted in ID Challenges & Tips, Looking At Our Data, Migration, Milkweed Butterflies
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Marching Back To 2012
We recorded 19 species in March, 2020, the best count for the third month of the year since March 2016, when we also found 19. We also broke three earliest First-Of-Year records for the log and tied two others. Our … Continue reading
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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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Not A Banner Year For Skippers
The numbers for reports and individual totals of all skippers are now included in the chart comparing the numbers of all species of butterflies seen in 2019 with their ten-year averages, 2009-2018. For the spreadsheet and an explanation of what … Continue reading
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Our Log’s Greatest One-Day Flight (so far)
Our new ten-year-averages chart is available at the link on the banner above, comparing the 2019 numbers of all species reported in 2019 with their average counts from 2009-2018. Thanks again to David Reese for modifying his reporting system so … Continue reading
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A “Teaser Challenge” for Ten-Year-Averages Report Coming Soon
Thanks to good work by David Reese, who has tweaked his already wonderful reporting system, we are now able to post our Early & Late Dates Spreadsheet more quickly and accurately. You can find the 2019 update at either the … Continue reading
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Brazilian Skipper Redux
We now have two mind-boggling reports of a Brazilian skipper in Cape May this spring: the first by Sam Galick on the Cape May Point Hawkwatch Platform on Sunday, May 20; the second by Teresa Knipper in her garden in … Continue reading
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Coming Soon?
I unplugged the heaters from the yard’s bird baths the other day. Wishful thinking! Both were frozen solid this morning. Needless to say, 2018 has been a late-starting butterfly year. As of noon, today, April 11, SJBP observer/reporters have found … Continue reading
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A Backward Glance at 2017
As of March 6, 2018, our “un-butterfly” weather continues. It has been so regularly cold, windy, rainy, icy, snowy, or all of the above that we have records for flying butterflies on only three days so far this year: Feb … Continue reading
Posted in Compilations, Early Dates, Eggs, Cats, Chrysalids, Late Dates, Looking At Our Data, PR for the SJBF Project
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