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| List: MassLep Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2024 10:34:22 -0400 From: Josh <opihi...> Subject: [MassLep] Amherst/Pelham 8-30 |
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Howdy folks, There have consistently been a few butterflies around our yard, but yesterd= ay a few more species than usual, mostly while I was on an exercise walk wi= th my trainer along mostly wooded Harkness Road (which kinda straddles the = Amherst/Pelham town line). White Admiral Polygonia sp. (E. Comma or Question Mark) Common Wood-Nymph - fluttering on the road, appeared to be mortally injured= :-(=20 Great Spangled Fritillary European Cabbage White - tons, as usual=20 Sulphur sp.=20 Tiger Swallowtail Nice variety of moths lately too. iNaturalist tells me that last night=E2= =80=99s most eye-catching visitors were a Variable Dart and a Grateful Midg= et. Other recent nights brought in a few Ipsilon Darts, a Brown Angle Shade= s, a Black Wedge-Spot, a couple of Pavlovski=E2=80=99s Monopis, and a puny = Catocala that iNat thinks was a Little Lined Underwing. About a week ago, spotted my first Monarch caterpillar of the year on one o= f our next-door neighbors=E2=80=99 milkweeds; had seen adults a few times e= arlier this year but not cats. Our Spicebush and the local Sassafras remain= stubbornly devoid of caterpillars so far, as have our honeysuckles (one of= which produced a clearwing moth hornworm last year; plenty of adult Hummin= gbird and Snowberry clearwings visiting our Scarlet Bee-Balms, as usual, bu= t their larvae are more elusive). Did not notice any skippers yesterday, but Least Skipper has been generally= more common this summer than I can remember from any previous year. On the= other hand, very little luck with Lycaenidae here this year so far, only E= TBs and one or two American Coppers.=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 on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/= masslep/<F0D3B2BA-B09B-4D6B-9C48-E6EEC84E9603...> |
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