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Category Archives: Skippers
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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Sharon Wander Makes Skipper ID Easier
Sharon Wander has pulled together an amazingly helpful, informative, and easy-to-use document focused on New Jersey’s grass skippers. You can find it on the NABA-NJ Resources page (where you will find lots of other good stuff): NABA-NJ Resources Page Or, … 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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Beth Polvino: Documenting My Brazilian Skippers
Beth Polvino has tracked and photographed the entire sequence of Brazilian skippers in her garden in North Cape May this year: from eggs to adults (still continuing). Until this year the species was not known to breed in NJ. Thanks … 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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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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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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Southern Broken Dash: A Species To Look For?
[Originally posted 8-1-16. Scroll to the end for an update as of 8-2-16 and a new photo from Harvey Tomlinson]. Is southern broken dash, Wallengrenia otho, possible in our area? And if so, can we identify it? Both Harvey Tomlinson … Continue reading
Photo Forum: A Duskywings Challenge (updated 4-21-16)
Last week’s request for duskywing shots for a Photo Forum on Juvenal’s vs. Horace’s brought in more than a dozen shots. Thanks to each of you who contributed. However, no one sent in details of which features had led to … Continue reading
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