MBC -Fannie Stebbins, Longmeadow - 8/15

[Barbara Volkle]

On Saturday, August 15, members of the Massachusetts Butterfly Club were
joined by members of the Friends of Fannie Stebbins for a walk at Fannie
Stebbins  Memorial Wildlife Refuge in Longmeadow.  There were 18 of us!

We saw:

Giant Swallowtail  2 - what a surprise!  one near the train tracks and
one at the entrance to the trail, both as we were heading out
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail  4
Spicebush Swallowtail  6
Cabbage White  3
Orange Sulphur 1
Harvester  2 - both cooperative!
Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
Eastern Comma  1
Appalachian Brown 3
Little Wood-Satyr  1
Monarch 5
Silver-spotted Skipper  8
Least Skipper  15
Peck's Skipper  2
Broad-winged Skipper 1 (2 additional ones were ween on Bark Haul Road
pre-trip)
Zabulon Skipper 15

Unfortunately, we found Spotted Lanternfly by the small pump station.

We then headed over to Forest Park.  There was lots of damage to the
recent storm - trees down, branches and trunks still to be cleaned up. 
We saw:

Eastern Tiger-Swallowtail  1
Clouded Sulphur 1
Common Wood-Nymph  1
Zabulon Skipper 1
unidentified skipper 1

We also saw Spotted Lanternfly there as well.

Many thanks to leader Moe O'Connor and thanks to all who joined us.

Barbara Volkle
Northborough, MA
bar...@theworld.com