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| List: MassLep Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 10:20:52 -0400 From: Josh <opihi...> Subject: [MassLep] Suddenly, skippers! |
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Howdy leppers, I guess I should complain more often. The day before yesterday I noted in a= post here that I=E2=80=99d had very few skippers in our yard this year. Le= ss than 24 hours later, I photographed two within a couple of meters of our= front door, nectaring together on my wife=E2=80=99s lavender.=20 One was a duskywing, identified on iNaturalist as Wild Indigo. This was my = suspicion as well, as we have a few Baptisia and several native lupines gro= wing in our little meadow. I had to chase it around the yard for a bit as i= t visited Echinacea purpurea flowers before it settled more cooperatively o= n the lavender:=20 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/297928815 The other was a grass-skipper, officially unidentified so far. iNat=E2=80= =99s AI is suggesting Dun, which often seems to be the most common skipper = in our yard, though this individual seems a bit more brightly marked than m= ost. Human ID suggestions would be welcome:=20 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/297929038 Cheers, Josh Joshua S. Rose, Ph.D. Amherst, MA https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/opihiman https://www.facebook.com/opihi Writer/compiler, Bird Observer https://www.birdobserver.org/ Columnist, =E2=80=9CEarth Matters=E2=80=9D https://www.gazettenet.com/search?bodysearch=3Dearth+matters https://www.hitchcockcenter.org/category/earth-matters/ Vice-president, Hampshire Bird Club https://hampshirebirdclub.org/ Northeast Chapter head, Dragonfly Society of the Americas https://www.dragonflysocietyamericas.org/northeastdsa --=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "= MassLep" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an e= mail to masslep+<unsubscribe...> To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/masslep/20B= <3A527-4104-4F28-8B2E-8E0C4BB1AED5...> |
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