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Category Archives: Pierids
Checkered White Background from Robert Somes
New Jersey Zoologist (& Stockton grad) Robert Somes has sent in some interesting background about checkered whites: Checkered white is kind of a peculiar species in NJ with a Threatened Status. Up until the last two years it was restricted … Continue reading
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Salem Co Calling All Butterflyers!
The next generation emerging: a checkered white caterpillar, photo’d by Dave Amadio in Salem County, 7-28-12. Have you been pulling out your maps to calculate the drive time to Featherbed Lane and environs? Dave Amadio reports on his day in … Continue reading
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Checkered White Outbreak!
A female checkered white found and photo’d by Sandra Keller in Salem County, 7-27-12. Sandra Keller and Chip Krilowicz added significantly to our checkered white numbers yesterday (7-27-12) with more than thirty individuals counted in a close cluster of places … Continue reading
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Checkered White: FO5Y!
A female checkered white found and photo’d by Dave Amadio ovipositing (on what seems to be Lepidium virginicum) in Salem County, 7-25-12. We have reached that time in the butterflying season when it’s hard to find a species new for … Continue reading
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A Little Yellow Invasion Year?
Little yellow found and photo’d by Will Kerling in Cape May Courthouse on 6-25-12. The South Jersey status of Eurema lisa, the little yellow, seems something of a puzzle. Gochfeld & Burger note in their Butterflies Of New Jersey (1997) … Continue reading
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Add Another for April
Our count for April 2012 (see April Compilation) has gained another species: dusted skipper (above) found and photo’d by Bill Grant near Bevan Wildlife Management Area, Dividing Creek on 4-29-12. Nice job tracking down this hard-to-find, spring-only species, Bill! That … 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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And now we have ten…
Photo by Mike Crewe, 12-4-11, at the Beanery in Cape May That last blog entry (“Double-Digit December?” below) proved obsolete almost as soon as it was posted. Mike Crewe has reported a tenth species for December — a clouded sulphur … Continue reading
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