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| List: Carolina-Leps Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2024 20:18:21 +0000 (UTC) From: ROBERT CAVANAUGH (via carolinaleps Mailing List) <carolinaleps...> Subject: Queen in Carteret County |
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------=_Part_10992232_1884460486.1726949901268 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable It might be 25 years since I last saw a Queen in my Newport yard, but sure = enough, there was a male sipping on milkweed blooms near my greenhouse at 4= this afternoon.=C2=A0 Was hoping it might be a windblown Soldier but a pho= to confirmed it was a Queen. Earlier, I had put two bait dishes out in hanging baskets under my Bradford= Pear.=C2=A0 In short order, a worn female Red Potted Purple showed up as w= ell as a Red Admiral. Palamedes Swallowtails, Cloudless Sulphurs, Gulf Frits, Long-tailed Skipper= s, Ocola Skippers, are plentiful with minimum half dozen each at any given = sunlit hour over the past few weeks. Third week of August I observed a Snout on Lantana in one of my customer's = yard in Morehead City.=C2=A0 Been a few years since I saw one of them local= ly. I have a lot of passion flower growing in my yard and I'm keeping my eye ou= t for any Zebra Long wings that may happen by.=C2=A0 Stay tuned. Bob=C2=A0 Yahoo Mail: Search, Organize, Conquer= ------=_Part_10992232_1884460486.1726949901268 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT It might be 25 years since I last saw a Queen in my Newport yard, but sure enough, there was a male sipping on milkweed blooms near my greenhouse at 4 this afternoon. Was hoping it might be a windblown Soldier but a photo confirmed it was a Queen.<div><br></div><div>Earlier, I had put two bait dishes out in hanging baskets under my Bradford Pear. In short order, a worn female Red Potted Purple showed up as well as a Red Admiral.</div><div><br></div><div>Palamedes Swallowtails, Cloudless Sulphurs, Gulf Frits, Long-tailed Skippers, Ocola Skippers, are plentiful with minimum half dozen each at any given sunlit hour over the past few weeks.</div><div><br></div><div>Third week of August I observed a Snout on Lantana in one of my customer's yard in Morehead City. Been a few years since I saw one of them locally.</div><div><br></div><div>I have a lot of passion flower growing in my yard and I'm keeping my eye out for any Zebra Long wings that may happen by. Stay tune d.</div><div><br></div><div>Bob <br><br><div id="ymail_android_signature"><a id="ymail_android_signature_link" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://mail.onelink.me/107872968?pid=NativePlacement&c=Global_Acquisition_YMktg_315_EmailSignatureGrowth_YahooMail:Search,Organize,Conquer&af_sub1=Acquisition&af_sub2=Global_YMktg&af_sub3=&af_sub4=100000945&af_sub5=OrganizeConquer__Static___;!!OToaGQ!tUCEcPp3mttHD-CdQYMDUSNs-8TK30bnrROqFLCQjJU3O6unWXFoH6YOmNgiR8CrnTSlUNmUoefgOOT0gA6ljg2IzA$">Yahoo Mail: Search, Organize, Conquer</a></div></div> ------=_Part_10992232_1884460486.1726949901268-- |
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