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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 17:01:40 -0400
From: Mark Rosenstein <mar...>
Subject: [MassLep] Horace's Duskywing at Horn Pond Mountain

I haven't made it out into the field much this year, but am finally back=20
in town and visited Horn Pond Mountain this afternoon.=C2=A0 It clouded ove=
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right after I got there, so numbers were lower than expected.=C2=A0 The=20
surprise was a Horace's Duskywing, which I seldom see.=C2=A0 At first sight=
I=20
thought Juvenal's, but it is too late in the season for them, and I=20
eventually got a look at the underside and it lacks the two pale spots=20
on the hindwing of Juvenal's, so it is definitely a Horace.=C2=A0 The other=
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things I saw were recently reported by others as well.

=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 -Mark

American Copper, Lycaena hypophlaeas: 1
Cabbage White, Pieris rapae: 1
Coral Hairstreak, Satyrium titus: 1
Eastern Tailed-blue, Cupido comyntas: 3
American Lady, Vanessa virginiensis: 1
Common Wood-nymph, Cercyonis pegala: 2
Horace's Duskywing, Erynnis horatius: 1
Wild Indigo Duskywing, Erynnis baptisiae: 2
Northern Broken-dash, Polites egeremet: 5
Dun Skipper, Euphyes vestris: 2

10 species, 19 individuals


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