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| List: MassLep Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:40:51 -0400 From: Barbara Volkle <barb620...> Subject: [MassLep] Northampton Community Garden - 0/21 - Massachusetts Butterfly Club |
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On Sunday, September 21, fourteen of us met for a walk at the=20 Northampton Community Gardens=C2=A0remembering Tom Gagnon.=C2=A0 Tom worked= on two=20 large plots there for many years.=C2=A0 We reminisced and remembered Tom as= =20 we walked the area.=C2=A0 Cedar Waxwings, Goldfinch, and Turkey Vultures fl= ew=20 overhead and visitors reported migrating warblers along the gardens=20 wooded edge.=C2=A0 It was a nice way to remember Tom. Dry conditions prevailed.=C2=A0 We saw: Silver-spotted Skipper 2 Wild Indigo Duskywing 1 Eastern Tailed-blue 4 Viceroy 3 Monarch 12 Great Spangled Fritillary 1 - worn Pearl Crescent 1 Cabbage White 40 Clouded Sulphur 30 The folks at the gardens have decided to maintain Tom's garden plots in=20 his memory.=C2=A0 They've already started by working to remove bamboo=20 (invasive) in one of the plots.=C2=A0Some verbena, zinnias, and butterfly= =20 bushes remain. It's nice to know his butterfly gardens will go on. We later headed over to the second community garden .=C2=A0 This garden has= =20 expanded over the last couple of years. We saw: Viceroy=C2=A0 3 Monarch 5 Black Swallowtail 1 Eastern Tailed-blue 3 American Lady 1 Cabbage White 30 Clouded Sulphur 9 Orange Sulphur 3 Let's do it again next year! Barbara Volkle Northborough, MA <barb620...> --=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/1de= <ebe34-1078-44b0-8f27-99ab7b20f904...> |
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