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Category Archives: Looking At Our Data
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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Ides of April IDs
Cobweb skipper, found and photo’d by Pennsylvania butterflyer Bill Grant in Dividing Creek, 4-15-12 The cobweb skipper above gives our group’s log thirty-eight species of butterflies for the first half of April and thirty-nine species for the year. (Summer azure, … Continue reading
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A Month To Remember
Juniper hairstreak, photo by Will Kerling, 3-27-12, a new record early date; has this species ever been found in NJ in March before this year? Whew! How to begin a summary of the past thirty-one days of butterfly activity? March … Continue reading
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Will K’s Update: NJ March Records
Henry’s elfin, photo by Will Kerling Will Kerling has sent a follow-up to his post from 3/14/12: As far as I know, we now have ten butterfly species that never have been officially documented in NJ for March before … Continue reading
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Will K On Our March Madness
An early black swallowtail found & photo’d by Jesse Connor in her garden in Port Republic, (Atlantic Co.), March 17, 2012. Prognostications about “March Madness” are not limited to basketball gurus. Will Kerling compiled a list of butterfly species that … Continue reading
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Does pine elfin make a baker’s dozen?
A very early eastern pine elfin photo’d by Shawn Wainwright in Toms River, 3/13/12. (Is it a record early date for the state?) Shawn Wainwright’s find of eastern pine elfin on the surprisingly early date of March 13 seems to … Continue reading
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And the beat goes on….
Male and female orange sulphurs nectaring on self-heal, Rt 9 and Avalon Blvd, by Will Kerling, January 6, 2012. Maybe the title here should be, “And the heat goes on…” As our warm weather pushes deeper into winter, butterflies continue … Continue reading
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Double-Digit December?
Buckeyes at the Cape Island Creek Preserve, photo by Sam Galick, 12-4-11 Butterflies are flying later this year than they have in any of our previous three years of logging. Observers have found nine species in the first week of … Continue reading
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November Says Good-bye
A questionmark on migration, photographed on-the-wing by Sam Galick at Stone Harbor Point, 11-26-11 As the month closed yesterday, butterflies are still flying in southern New Jersey. We gathered reports of flying adults from seven of the eight southern counties … Continue reading
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Our November Flyers
Vanessa atalanta is among our most reliable November flyers. Photo by Will Kerling, 11-02-11 in Cape May As November begins I thought it would be interesting to look back over our data for the past three years to list which … Continue reading
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