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| List: MassLep Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2025 08:20:42 -0400 From: Josh <opihi...> Subject: [MassLep] Valley buckeyes |
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Howdy folks, This summer seems to have been better than average for Common Buckeye (Juno= nia coenia) in the Valley. A friend posted on FaceBook yesterday that she= =E2=80=99d had two in the past week, one yesterday on Moody Bridge Road in = Hadley, the other on October 3 at Wentworth Farm Conservation Area in Amher= st. This followed one in my yard in late July that was the first I=E2=80=99= d seen here since 2019, and another photographed by a friend in late August= , I think in Hadley. iNaturalist shows a few more in the area this summer, = including a caterpillar in a yard not too far away from my own, on Septembe= r 1:=20 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/310865927 And another cat in Hampshire County just a few days ago, on the far side of= the big river:=20 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/318690733=20 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/743= <3E194-092B-402C-A83B-064FA2CB2C15...> |
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