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| List: MassLep Date: Sat, 2 May 2026 10:31:29 -0400 From: Josh <opihi...> Subject: [MassLep] Another early swallowtail |
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Hi again, On May 1, a friend photographed a Spicebush Swallowtail in north Amherst:= =20 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/357268174 Butterflies of Massachusetts only listed one date earlier than this for the= species, and that was in Plymouth:=20 https://www.butterfliesofmassachusetts.net/spice-swt.htm I know that BoM hasn=E2=80=99t been updated in several years, so presumably= some other earlier dates have been documented since then, both for this sp= ecies and for my previously reported April 29 Canadian Tiger in east Amhers= t. They still seem noteworthy, especially since I haven=E2=80=99t seen any = swallowtails reported here yet this year, even in reports from more souther= n and coastal locations that usually get seasonal species earlier than we d= o here in Hampshire County.=20 I do see one earlier report of a tiger this year in the Massachusetts Butte= rflies group on FaceBook, from April 26 in Longmeadow. I haven=E2=80=99t se= arched iNaturalist yet, might find a few more there=E2=80=A6. 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/DB2= <62176-A109-4D71-B41F-194EB8FDDF8B...> |
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