foxboro, 5/7/08

[madeline...@comcast.net]

Lamson Road, 73 degrees, occasional gusts of wind

 

3  Eastern Tailed-Blue

9  Eastern Pine Elfin

7  Azure

1  Cabbage White

1  Clouded Sulphur

 

2  Grapevine Epimenis

 

I was watching the Eastern Pine Elfins on pine branches, saw a female ovipositing and was able to see the egg (I took a picture of it, happened to have my camera today).

 

Also enjoyed watching a Grapevine Epimenis, a beautiful little moth, walking up and down the grapevine, stopping at the leaf buds.  Haven't located an egg but will be watching for the caterpillars.

 

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Late afternoon, in my yard, 1 Cabbage White (nectaring on dandelion), 1 Azure.

 

Madeline Champagne, Foxboro