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Category Archives: sightings
A Tale of Two (or More) Crescents
Oh for the simple days when in the mid-Atlantic region if you saw a crescent you could safely assume it was the common, indeed almost ubiquitous, Pearl Crescent (Phyciodes tharos). The only doubt to contend with would be if you … Continue reading
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Low-hanging Fruit for Maryland Lep Observers
With the data from the Maryland Biodiversity Project in hand that I posted about recently, I dug a little deeper to see where a diligent butterfly observer might make some easy dents in our understanding the distribution of Maryland butterflies. … Continue reading
2022 Was a Good Year — For New Butterfly Records
It appears that 2022 was a pretty good year for folks in MD prospecting for new county records. Thanks to Bill Hubick at the Maryland Biodiversity Project, we now know that 2022 gave Maryland lepsters three new county records, five … Continue reading
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New Year, New Challenge
[Updated to clarify sightings must be AFTER January 1, 2023. Cut-and-paste is the nightmare of editors] It’s barely six weeks now in the mid-Atlantic until we can be confident of seeing early spring butterflies, so it must be time to … Continue reading
A Skipper Out of Sync With Its Nectar Source?
This is likely to be the weekend that the first Leonard’s Skipper shows up at Soldiers Delight serpentine barrens in Baltimore Co. Last week they were AWOL but it was a terrific field experience for folks wanting to nail the … Continue reading
“Big Years” in the age of iNaturalist
Long-time readers of LepLog will remember that Tom Stock and I did a “Butterfly Big Year” effort for Maryland in 2013. Tom gave a terrific keynote presentation on this Big Year last fall at the 2021 Texas Butterfly Festival that … Continue reading
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A banner year for Northern Metalmarks
We just wrapped up the 2022 NABA annual count for Green Ridge State Forest this past weekend; after a soggy cold front washed out our original date of July 9 we were very happy with a glorious Sunday in the … Continue reading
The “obscured data” problem
Many citizen science platforms now permit users to automatically obscure (or set to private) the locations at which they made observations of flora and fauna, including butterflies. Many of you have likely seen the lively conversation on the MDLepsOdes Google … Continue reading
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Where do Edwards’ Hairstreaks go when there is no nectar?
The recent excellent spate of mid-Atlantic sightings of Edwards’ Hairstreak, Satyrium edwardsii, all come from areas where there is currently no or little nectar. I’ve only seen them nectaring twice in the past decade, both times on a single plant … Continue reading
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A Farewell to the Weekly Almanac and Forecast
Happy Independence Day, everyone! I hope I am not hijacking the meaning of the holiday by declaring something of an Independence Day for myself as well. I am sad but also relieved to report that the July 2 issue of … Continue reading
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