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Mid-Atlantic Weekend Field Lep Forecast for 2015 June 21-22

Posted on June 18, 2015 by Rick

The past week has finally provided a number of FOY grass skippers and hairstreaks, including Coral, Striped, and Edwards Hairstreaks and Salt Marsh, Aaron’s, Broad-winged, and Delaware Skippers.  Bog Copper and Appalachian Brown also popped up. Hairstreaks are finally coming … Continue reading →

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Weekend Lep Field Forecast for the Weekend of 2015 April 11

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Rick

Finally, a weekend of warm and sunny weather on tap this weekend – at least from the vantage point of Thursday long-range forecasts! The warmer weather and sunshine should bring out another flush of new FOY butterflies. As predicted, we … Continue reading →

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2014: The Mid-Atlantic Butterfly Year In Review

Posted on December 25, 2014 by Rick

The flight season for 2014 will probably be best remembered more for the paucity of many normally common butterflies than it will be for the explosion of at least one uncommon species and a very robust finish to the season. … Continue reading →

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Final Mid-Atlantic Lep Field Forecast of the 2014 Season

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Rick

It’s been quite the interesting – and sometimes frustrating — season, an exceedingly slow start for many of our larger butterflies especially, low numbers but reasonable diversity through the summer, some puzzling absences of several usual suspects and few individuals … Continue reading →

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Mid-Atlantic Field Lep Forecast for the Weekend of 2014 Sept. 6-7

Posted on September 5, 2014 by Rick

While overall numbers of many butterflies are declining as the summer draws to a close, diversity is still pretty high even though there are no regional FOYs to report this week. We had hoped to report in this Forecast that … Continue reading →

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Mid-Atlantic Lep Field Forecast for Weekend of 2014 Aug. 9-10

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Rick

The southern skipper migration seems to have started, with reports of Fiery Skippers from Silver Spring and from the Glendening Butterfly Garden in Anne Arundel Co MD. Can Long-tailed and Ocola Skippers be far behind?  Variegated Fritillaries are showing up … Continue reading →

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Kent Co DE Record Gulf Fritillary

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Rick

Howard Eskin snapped this pic of a Gulf yesterday nectaring on thistle in the Bear Swamp area of Bombay Hook NWR in Delaware. While resident range guru Dick Smith says that Agraulis vanillae has been reported a number of times … Continue reading →

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