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Category Archives: Pierids
Steve Glynn: South Jersey’s Sleepy Orange Colony
Steve Glynn has been carefully monitoring a colony of sleepy oranges at Dix WMA, Cumberland County, since August, 2016, when he found and re-found two females and one male flying there over several days — and began wondering why they … Continue reading
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Upcoming Field Trip to Dix WMA
Steve Glynn has kindly offered to lead a field trip for our group to Dix Wildlife Management Area this Sunday, August 27, to search for sleepy oranges and other butterflies he and others have been finding at this site recently. … 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
Posted in Compilations, Looking At Our Data, Lycaenids, Milkweed Butterflies, Nymphalids, Pierids, Skippers, Swallowtails
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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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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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Do Orange Spots Make An Orange Sulphur?
Harvey Tomlinson has created the challenge above — by capturing a seldom-seen feature in these two photos he took in Cumberland County on Jan. 3. Those orange dots on the hindwing of the white female in the first photo and … 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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The Colias Conundrum
Hidden in the swirl of more exciting finds this month has been a surge of reports of both orange and clouded sulphurs. We already have more December reports of these two than in any of our previous seven Decembers … Continue reading
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October 2015 Photo Gallery
Our log did well in October. Despite the inevitable decline of butterfly diversity and numbers as autumn days grow shorter and colder, we logged more reports in October (173) than in September (163), which was our first month using the … Continue reading
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Field Trip Report: Heislerville Migration 10-7-15
We came, we saw, and we contemplated. Jack Miller led a half dozen of us on an investigation of the butterfly migration along Bay Avenue in Maurice River Township and in other, nearby spots on October 7. We were searching … Continue reading
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