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Category Archives: Looking At Our Data
TNC Preserve At Cape Island Creek Invites Butterflyers
Attention South Jersey butterflyers: The Nature Conservancy needs your help in documenting the butterflies that use the habitat at our Garrett Family Preserve at Cape Island Creek. Why, you ask? As the Critical Lands Manager for The Nature Conservancy in … Continue reading
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Not A Census; A Survey By Snapshots
Thanks again to Jack Miller for his many hours of work compiling all our reports for both 2015 and 2016, his species-by-species analysis, and for his notes about his difficulties assembling his 2016 Compilation. He points to a genuine problem, … Continue reading
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Full-Year Compilation for 2016
Jack Miller has done it again. Following up on his compilation for 2015, here is his full-year compilation of species, reports, and individuals as posted on our Sightings Log, January-December, 2016. He worked on this through the fall (while he … Continue reading
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A New Butterfly For South Jersey
Exciting news! We can add a 106th butterfly to our list of documented species since our log began in 2008: Hobomok skipper, Poanes hobomok, found and photo’d by John Maxwell at Rancocas Nature Center on May 15, 2010. The sighting … Continue reading
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2015 Full-Year Compilation: Cold Start, Hot End
Jack Miller took on the much-harder-than-it-looks task of compiling our records for the full year of 2015. Thanks to his many hours of work we now have two new spreadsheets documenting that interesting year. This one focuses in detail on … 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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July Compilation
Let me start with a shout-out to Jack Miller who compiled observers and species for the month and also helped select the photos for this month’s gallery. Thank you, JM! Twenty-eight observers contributed to the log in July 2016: Cynthia … Continue reading
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April Compilation
Have we returned to normalcy? April brought us a weather pattern much closer to average than we experienced over the previous seven months — from September to the end of March. September 2015-March 2016 was the 5th warmest fall 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
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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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