3-year hiatus

Common Buckeye (“Junonia coenia”). This is apparently only marginally a "resident," but most likely a "temporary colonist," and I haven't posted a Common Buckeye for 3 years — http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2013-10-19 — so I was happy to see some this year. As my regional coordinator at BAMONA wrote me almost 4 years ago, http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2012-11-04 » “… Buckeyes come to us from warmer climates as temporary colonists and cannot survive winter even in your neighborhood. … Your populations of J. coenia, like mine, will be replenished from the south next year.”

Confirmed at BAMONA as “Junonia coenia” or “Common Buckeye”; http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/sighting_details/1097697

Species page at BAMONA, http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Junonia-coenia

1 year ago (“Opening up the patient…”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2015-08-08
2 years ago (“America’s Pastime”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2014-08-08
3 years ago (“Weathervane I”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2013-08-08
4 years ago (“Common Whitetail (female)”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2012-08-08
5 years ago (“August abstract #4”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2011-08-08

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