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Category Archives: Skippers
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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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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“Pied Piper” Migration?
Fiery skipper by W. Kerling, 8/16/11 The recent reports of sleepy orange, gulf fritillary, and fiery skippers on our log sent me searching for a term. What should we call the apparently-doomed northbound flights we see most falls of those … Continue reading
Crippled Skipper ID Challenge
(photo by Chris Herz) Chris Herz reports (8/1/11): “Found this skipper in our stone driveway…. I thought it was a fly at first — until I looked at it with my binoculars and was surprised to see it was a … Continue reading
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What do you see here?
A mystery photo along Rt 608 (Cape May County) by Will Kerling, 7/15/11 Can you tell what’s captured in this image by Will Kerling? No, it’s not a Salvador Dali-ian cartoon of a red-bearded lizard head with one eye and … Continue reading
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Those D—— Skippers!
Dion skipper on redroot, photo by Will Kerling, 7/6/11 South Jersey hosts three single-brooded and tough-to-find skippers whose common names begin with d, and two of them are flying now. The dusted skipper, Atyrtonopsis hianna, flies in very limited numbers … Continue reading
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Early Fiery Caps FOY Run
Fiery skipper on common milkweed at Wheelabrator Refuge, Gloucester, 6/12/11, photo by Dave Amadio. We have had several first-of-the-season observations in the last few days: coral hairstreak, white-m hairstreak, northern broken dash, broad-winged skipper, and — most surprisingly — fiery … Continue reading
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Cloudywings in Competition?
Northern cloudywing above; southern cloudywing below. South Jersey has a number of look-alike/act-alike pairs of butterfly species: orange and common sulfurs, holly and blueberry azures, American and painted ladies, hackberry and tawny emperors, Juvenal’s and Horace’s duskywings, tawny-edged and … Continue reading
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Dusted in Gloucester Again
Atrytonopsis hianna photo by Dave Amadio, Riverwinds Scenic Trail May 13, 2011 Dave Amadio found dusted skippers yesterday (5-13-11) on Riverwinds Scenic Trail exactly one day earlier than he found them in the same place last year. That suggests a … Continue reading
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See-Them-Now Skippers
Female sleepy duskywing, Erynnis brizo, photo by Will Kerling, Lizard Tail Swamp Preserve, April 29, 2011 South Jersey is home to half a dozen species of single-brooded, spring skippers that fly only into May or June. Four of the six … Continue reading
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