 |
 |
 |
 |
| List: MassLep Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:23:26 -0400 From: Josh <opihi...> Subject: [MassLep] Montague bioblitz August 15-16 |
||||
Howdy folks, Some iNaturalist users, including Jeremy Coleman and David Matevosian, coor= dinated a bioblitz last weekend in the Montague Sandplains. Among the more = than 900 species documented by 30+ participants were 12 butterfly species:= =20 Eastern Tailed-Blue 12 observations Gray Hairstreak 4 American Copper 4 Monarch 1 Viceroy 1 American Lady 1 Great Spangled Fritillary 1 Horace=E2=80=99s Duskywing 3 Northern Broken-Dash 2 Tawny-Edged Skipper 1 Peck=E2=80=99s Skipper 1 Skipper sp. (caterpillar) 1 The caterpillar was photographed on Round-headed Bush-clover (Lespedeza cap= itata). We also saw one swallowtail on Sunday, a dark-colored one, but it did not l= and and was not photographed, and we couldn=E2=80=99t identify its species.= =20 The butterflies were among well over 150 total lepidopteran species, thanks= to a couple of nights of black-lighting for moths, a few observations of c= aterpillars and day-flying moths, and lots of leaf miners ID=E2=80=99d by C= harley Eiseman, Nate Marchessault, and other participants. https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/montague-plains-bioblitz 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/012= <76B74-E4F9-4069-8D91-AF3A30646735...> |
||||